Brown coal and gas dominate a low-wind, post-sunset grid requiring 17.7 GW of net imports at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 0%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 29%
34%
Renewable share
3.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
29.0 GW
Total generation
-17.7 GW
Net import
156.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.7°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
89% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
456
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the night sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 6.4 GW occupies the centre-left as compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, illuminated by facility floodlights; hard coal 4.1 GW appears centre-right as a pair of large coal-fired boiler houses with heavy brick stacks and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel, under harsh industrial lighting; biomass 4.5 GW is represented to the right as a wood-chip-fed power plant with a moderate stack and glowing combustion windows in the boiler hall; wind onshore 2.7 GW appears as a small row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors nearly motionless in the calm air, faint red aviation warning lights blinking; wind offshore 1.2 GW is suggested by a few barely visible turbine silhouettes on a far dark horizon line; hydro 1.5 GW is a small run-of-river station at the lower right with water glinting under a single floodlight. The sky is completely dark, deep navy to black, no twilight glow, no stars visible through 89% cloud cover — a heavy overcast ceiling reflecting dim orange-brown industrial light pollution. The atmosphere is oppressive and dense, haze and steam mingling in the still air, conveying the pressure of a high-price hour. Spring vegetation — leafy deciduous trees and fresh grass — is barely visible in the sodium-lit foreground, temperature suggesting a mild evening. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich, sombre colour palette of deep indigos, burnt oranges, and ashen greys, visible textured brushwork, atmospheric depth with layers of industrial haze receding into darkness. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor nacelles on lattice towers, reinforced-concrete hyperbolic shells of cooling towers, riveted steel stacks, turbine housings. No text, no labels.