Brown coal and gas dominate a calm, dark night as 15.3 GW of net imports fill the generation gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 2%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 28%
37%
Renewable share
5.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
30.5 GW
Total generation
-15.2 GW
Net import
148.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.1°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
2% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
431
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.6 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 black night sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps revealing their concrete ribbing; natural gas 6.8 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and softly glowing turbine halls behind chain-link fences; wind onshore 5.1 GW fills the centre-right as a row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors barely turning in the still air, red aviation warning lights blinking at each nacelle; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a timber-chip conveyor and a single squat smokestack emitting thin pale exhaust, warmly lit by floodlights; hard coal 3.6 GW sits to the right as a compact power station with a single large cooling tower and coal bunker, spotlit against the darkness; hydro 1.6 GW is represented in the far right background by a concrete dam with spillway illuminated by small white lights reflected in dark water; wind offshore 0.5 GW is barely visible as distant red dots on the far horizon suggesting turbines at sea. The sky is completely black with no twilight or sky glow, a deep navy dome scattered with faint stars; the air is clear with only 2% cloud cover, and the landscape is a flat German lowland with fresh spring grass barely visible in the artificial light; the atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting a high electricity price — the sodium-orange industrial glow casts a brooding warmth across the entire scene. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, deep colour palette dominated by blacks, deep blues, and warm industrial oranges; visible impasto brushwork on the steam plumes and sky; atmospheric depth with subtle aerial perspective; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.