Brown coal and wind lead a supply-short grid requiring 17 GW net imports under heavy overcast at dawn.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 8%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 27%
51%
Renewable share
9.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.7 GW
Solar
34.1 GW
Total generation
17.3 GW
Net import
167.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.8°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
91.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
357
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.2 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white-grey steam plumes into the overcast sky; wind onshore 7.5 GW fills the centre-right as a long ridge of three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly in light breeze; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-ground cluster of industrial biomass plants with corrugated metal sidings and wood-chip conveyors, modest chimneys trailing pale smoke; natural gas 3.8 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with slim exhaust stacks and visible air intakes; hard coal 3.7 GW stands beside the lignite complex as a smaller coal plant with a single large smokestack and coal bunkers; solar 2.7 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground reflecting only dull grey light; wind offshore 2.4 GW is visible far in the background as distant turbines along a hazy horizon line; hydro 1.0 GW is represented by a small concrete run-of-river weir with water spilling over in the lower right corner. Time of day is pre-dawn at 06:00 in late July — the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence low on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm tones yet, the landscape lit by diffuse twilight and the orange sodium glow of industrial lighting on the power stations. Cloud cover is near-total at 91%, a thick oppressive blanket of stratus pressing down low, conveying the high electricity price as atmospheric weight and constriction. Temperature is cool at 10.8°C — summer vegetation is full and green but dew-laden and muted in the dim light, grasses heavy with moisture. Wind is light at 4 km/h — turbine blades rotate slowly, steam plumes rise nearly vertically before spreading. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, dark Romantic palette of slate blues, umber browns, and muted greens with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth achieved through layered mist between the industrial structures, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and panel frame, the scene feeling like a monumental 19th-century German landscape masterwork depicting the industrial sublime. No text, no labels.