Brown coal leads thin domestic generation as 28.6 GW net imports cover evening peak demand during an extreme heatwave.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 11%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 7%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 28%
59%
Renewable share
6.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.9 GW
Solar
26.0 GW
Total generation
-28.6 GW
Net import
350.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
32.9°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 146.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
314
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.4 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of four massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into a dark, oppressive, deep-navy night sky; wind onshore 4.9 GW appears as a scattered line of three-blade turbines with slowly turning rotors on a gentle ridge in the centre-left background; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a tall chimney and visible glow from its furnace in the centre; solar 2.9 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right-centre foreground, barely visible in the last residual dusk glow on the very lowest horizon edge; wind offshore 1.9 GW is suggested by distant turbines on a dark seascape visible through a gap on the far right; hard coal 1.9 GW is a compact coal plant with conveyor belts and a single large smokestack behind the cooling towers on the left; hydro 1.9 GW is a small dam structure with a gleaming spillway tucked into a wooded valley in the mid-right; natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a single exhaust stack emitting a thin heat shimmer near the centre. The sky is completely dark at the zenith — 20:00 Berlin time on a summer evening — with only a narrow band of deep burnt-orange afterglow lingering at the very lowest western horizon, transitioning rapidly to black above. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, and oppressive, with a faint heat haze distorting the lower horizon, reflecting the 32.9 °C heatwave. Vegetation is lush midsummer green but parched-looking, with dry grasses in the foreground. Sodium streetlights cast amber pools along an industrial access road. High-voltage transmission pylons recede into the distance carrying imported power. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — with rich, dark colour palette, visible heavy brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro from artificial lighting against the black sky, atmospheric depth and haze. Meticulous engineering accuracy on all technology. No text, no labels.