Brown coal, gas, and modest wind supply 27.8 GW as sweltering nighttime heat drives 18.2 GW of net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 0%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 29%
41%
Renewable share
5.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.8 GW
Total generation
-18.2 GW
Net import
175.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
30.0°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
6.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
414
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 8.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a dense cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lights; onshore wind 5.2 GW occupies the centre-right as a scattered line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors barely turning in the still air; natural gas 5.1 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with slim exhaust stacks and small heat-shimmer plumes; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with cylindrical silos and a modest smokestack; hard coal 3.3 GW sits behind the brown coal as a smaller conventional power station with a single tall chimney and conveyor infrastructure; hydro 1.6 GW appears as a small concrete dam structure at the far right edge with water spilling softly; offshore wind 0.7 GW is a faint trio of turbines on the distant horizon line. The sky is completely dark — deep black-navy, no twilight, no sky glow — a hot, oppressive summer night with only a scattering of stars visible through a nearly cloudless sky. The atmosphere feels heavy and stifling despite clear skies. All structures are illuminated solely by artificial light: orange-yellow sodium streetlamps, red aviation warning lights on turbine nacelles and chimney tops, and the incandescent glow from plant windows and control rooms reflecting off the steam plumes. Vegetation is lush midsummer green, visible only where lamplight reaches — tall grasses, mature deciduous trees in full leaf. The landscape is flat North German lowland. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, dark tonal palette of Caspar David Friedrich's nocturnes combined with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between artificial light and deep shadow, atmospheric depth with distant haze. Meticulous engineering detail on every structure: turbine nacelles, aluminium blade profiles, cooling tower parabolic geometry, pipe runs on CCGT units. No text, no labels.