Wind and brown coal anchor a 39 GW overnight dispatch under full cloud cover, with elevated prices reflecting tight thermal margins.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 28%
Wind offshore 15%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 19%
57%
Renewable share
16.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
39.1 GW
Total generation
+1.4 GW
Net export
116.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.3°C / 0 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
301
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.5 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into a pitch-black, fully overcast sky; hard coal 3.8 GW sits just right of them as a smaller set of rectangular boiler buildings with twin chimneys glowing faintly orange at the tips; natural gas 5.7 GW occupies the centre-left as three compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting translucent heat shimmer, illuminated by sodium-yellow floodlights; wind onshore 10.9 GW sweeps across the entire right half as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the darkness, rotors turning slowly; wind offshore 6.0 GW is suggested in the far-right background as a line of turbines standing in a faintly visible dark sea on the distant horizon, each marked by a tiny red beacon; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-ground timber-clad industrial plant with a modest stack and a warm amber glow from its furnace hall windows; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam structure in the lower right foreground with water gleaming under floodlight. The sky is completely black with no twilight or moon, thick 100% cloud cover blotting out any stars — oppressively heavy atmosphere reflecting the 116 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is 6°C: early May but cool, with fresh green foliage on deciduous trees barely visible in artificial light, patches of dew on grass. Ground-level wind is nearly calm at 0.4 km/h so steam from cooling towers rises almost vertically, and foreground vegetation is still. No solar panels visible anywhere. The entire scene is lit only by industrial sodium streetlights casting amber pools, red warning beacons, and the incandescent glow of furnace windows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark colour palette of deep navy, umber, and ochre, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth receding into haze — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.