Brown coal leads at 9.4 GW as weak wind and early solar leave a 15.8 GW net import requirement at dawn.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 13%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 25%
51%
Renewable share
9.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.8 GW
Solar
37.4 GW
Total generation
-15.8 GW
Net import
146.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.4°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
54.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
350
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.4 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes; wind onshore 7.3 GW fills the centre-right as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, their rotors barely turning in near-still air; natural gas 4.8 GW appears as two compact CCGT plant blocks with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer in the centre-left; solar 4.8 GW is rendered as orderly rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a gentle slope in the right foreground, their surfaces dark and muted under low indirect light; hard coal 4.0 GW sits behind the gas units as a coal-fired station with a single large chimney trailing grey smoke; biomass 3.7 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip plant with a modest smokestack and timber storage yard at far right; hydro 1.6 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white water visible along a canal in the lower-right corner; wind offshore 1.8 GW is barely visible as a cluster of turbines on a distant hazy horizon line at far left. Time is early dawn at 06:00 in late June: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale-rose glow appearing at the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight yet, pre-dawn luminance only; 54% cloud cover creates a layered stratus canopy overhead, oppressive and heavy in tone conveying the high 146 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is a mild 18.4 °C, lush green deciduous vegetation in full summer leaf, dewy meadows. 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 with deep indigo-blue shadows, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant elements, golden-warm artificial sodium lights glowing from the industrial facilities contrasting against the cool pre-dawn sky. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, aluminium PV frames, hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with internal steam, CCGT exhaust stacks. The overall mood is sombre, weighty, industrial-sublime. No text, no labels, no people.