Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate a calm, windless summer night requiring ~15.6 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 34%
31%
Renewable share
3.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.4 GW
Total generation
-15.6 GW
Net import
143.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.5°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
490
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium floodlights; natural gas 5.6 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall slender exhaust stacks venting heat shimmer into the dark air; hard coal 4.1 GW appears centre-right as a gritty coal-fired plant with a single large smokestack and conveyor belt infrastructure under harsh white security lighting; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a modest industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and shorter stacks, warmly lit; wind onshore 2.3 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors nearly still, aviation warning lights blinking red; wind offshore 0.7 GW is suggested by faint red beacon lights on the far horizon; hydro 1.7 GW is a concrete dam structure in the mid-ground with illuminated spillway. The sky is completely black to deep navy, no twilight, no moon glow — a true 3 AM summer darkness with stars barely visible through industrial haze. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, dense humid air at 19.5°C carrying a faint industrial shimmer, reflecting the high electricity price. Lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf line a river in the foreground, their forms barely discernible except where caught by facility lighting. The river surface reflects the amber and white industrial lights. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts, atmospheric sfumato in the steam plumes — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every cooling tower curve, turbine nacelle, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.