Brown coal, solar, and gas lead generation as extreme heat drives 57.9 GW demand and 18.8 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 24%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 22%
56%
Renewable share
7.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.4 GW
Solar
39.1 GW
Total generation
-18.8 GW
Net import
203.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
32.5°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 282.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
314
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes into a hazy sky; solar 9.4 GW fills the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled toward the low western sun, their surfaces glowing amber-orange; wind onshore 5.5 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a ridge in the middle distance, blades barely turning in the weak breeze; natural gas 4.8 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT plants with slender single exhaust stacks and heat recovery units in the centre-left; hard coal 3.9 GW sits behind the gas plant as a traditional coal station with a tall chimney and conveyor belt; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a squat stack and timber yard in the right middle ground; hydro 1.8 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam and turbine house at the far right beside a sluggish, heat-shimmering river; wind offshore 1.5 GW is barely visible as tiny white turbines on the far horizon line. Time of day is 19:00 summer dusk: the sun is very low on the western horizon casting deep orange-red light across the lower sky while the upper sky transitions from pale gold to warm blue, long dramatic shadows stretch eastward across parched golden-brown grassland and dry summer fields. The air is oppressively thick and hazy, conveying a 32.5°C heat wave with heat distortion rippling above the ground and the coal cooling towers. The atmosphere feels heavy and pressured, matching the 203 EUR/MWh price. Vegetation is full summer foliage but drought-stressed, yellowed grass, wilting leaves. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro lighting — but with meticulous modern engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV cell pattern, cooling tower curvature, and industrial detail. No text, no labels, no people in foreground.