Brown coal and gas anchor evening generation as overcast skies and light winds drive high prices and 18.7 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 2%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 26%
46%
Renewable share
10.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.8 GW
Solar
37.1 GW
Total generation
-18.8 GW
Net import
180.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.2°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
378
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the night sky; natural gas 6.2 GW occupies the centre-left as two modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and glowing orange sodium-lit turbine halls; hard coal 4.2 GW appears centre-right as a classical coal-fired station with a single large smokestack and conveyor belts; wind onshore 5.9 GW is rendered as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the right background, their red aviation warning lights blinking; wind offshore 4.4 GW is suggested by a distant row of turbines on a dark horizon line far right, nacelle lights visible; biomass 4.5 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest chimney, placed between the coal and wind sections; hydro 1.5 GW is a small dam structure with illuminated spillway in the far right foreground; solar 0.8 GW is represented only by a few barely visible darkened aluminium-framed PV panels on a rooftop, entirely unlit, receiving no light. Time is 20:00 in late May — the sky is fully dark, deep navy-black, no twilight glow remains, 99% cloud cover obscuring all stars, a heavy oppressive overcast ceiling pressing down. The atmosphere feels dense and weighty, conveying expensive electricity. The landscape is spring-green rolling central German terrain with beech and linden trees in full leaf, visible only where industrial sodium streetlights and facility lighting cast amber pools. Cooling tower steam is dramatically backlit by facility lights, billowing upward into the black overcast. Transmission pylons with high-voltage lines recede into darkness, symbolising interconnector flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich deep colours, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric chiaroscuro depth — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, lattice tower, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. The mood is sombre industrial grandeur. No text, no labels.