Brown coal leads at 9.5 GW on a calm, clear summer night with 17.8 GW net imports covering the gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 0%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 34%
35%
Renewable share
4.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.7 GW
Total generation
17.8 GW
Net import
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Day-ahead price
15.8°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
471
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.5 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 sodium-orange industrial lamps; natural gas 4.5 GW appears centre-left as two sleek CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and faint heat shimmer; hard coal 4.0 GW sits at centre as a dark coal-fired station with a pair of rectangular boiler buildings and a single large chimney glowing dull red at the tip; onshore wind 4.1 GW occupies the centre-right as a scattered line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors barely turning in the near-still air; biomass 3.7 GW appears right-of-centre as a compact wood-chip power plant with a modest stack and warm yellow light spilling from its operational hall; hydro 1.7 GW is rendered at the far right as a concrete dam spillway with a dark river reflecting industrial light. The sky is completely black — a deep-navy, cloudless summer night at 3 AM, no twilight, no sky glow, only brilliant stars overhead and the Milky Way faintly visible where industrial light does not wash it out. The landscape is a gentle central-German rolling terrain with lush dark-green summer vegetation barely visible in the darkness. Sodium streetlights line a road in the foreground. The atmosphere is calm and still, no wind motion in trees or grass, a serene industrial nocturne. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth — but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, aluminium-framed structures, hyperbolic cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust stacks. No text, no labels.