Brown coal and gas dominate overnight generation as calm winds and absent solar drive heavy imports and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 2%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 24%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 33%
31%
Renewable share
3.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
28.4 GW
Total generation
-15.2 GW
Net import
148.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.8°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
11.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
479
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.4 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast complex of hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the night; natural gas 6.8 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin grey plumes, lit by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; hard coal 3.5 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal plant with a single squat cooling tower and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized industrial buildings with timber-yard fuel storage visible under arc lights; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a concrete dam structure set into a low hillside at far right with water glinting under security lights; onshore wind 2.6 GW shows as a handful of three-blade turbines on a ridge behind the thermal plants, rotors barely turning in near-still air; offshore wind 0.6 GW is suggested by one or two distant turbines on a dark horizon line. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, with faint stars visible through scattered thin clouds (11% cover). No twilight, no solar panels. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive — a warm humid summer night at 17.8°C with lush green vegetation in the foreground barely visible in the darkness. Industrial sodium streetlights cast amber pools on access roads. Transmission pylons march across the midground carrying thick cables. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich dark palette of indigo, amber, and charcoal, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with steam and haze layering into the darkness. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors on lattice or tubular towers, lignite plant hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with realistic steam physics, CCGT stacks with heat shimmer. The overall mood is one of industrial sublime — monumental human infrastructure laboring through the small hours. No text, no labels.