Brown coal and onshore wind lead domestic generation while 18.2 GW of net imports meet evening peak demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 5%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 28%
51%
Renewable share
8.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.5 GW
Solar
30.5 GW
Total generation
18.2 GW
Net import
185.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.2°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 115.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
359
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers billowing thick white-grey steam plumes into the dark sky; onshore wind 8.4 GW fills the centre-right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling hills, blades turning moderately in the breeze; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a cluster of medium-scale industrial plants with wood-chip conveyors and squat chimneys emitting thin pale exhaust, positioned centre-left; natural gas 3.5 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT units with single tall exhaust stacks and clean rectangular housings in the mid-ground; hard coal 2.9 GW sits beside the brown coal complex as a smaller conventional plant with a single large smokestack and coal bunkers; solar 1.5 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground catching the last faint glow of dusk but mostly dark; hydro 1.2 GW is depicted as a small concrete run-of-river dam with visible spillway on a river in the right foreground; offshore wind 0.3 GW is barely visible as a few tiny turbines on the far horizon. Time is 20:00 in August: the sky is deep navy to black overhead, with only the thinnest residual burnt-orange band along the western horizon rapidly fading—no direct sunlight, no twilight glow above the horizon line. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, a warm 25°C summer night with perfectly clear skies but a psychological weight suggested by dense, looming industrial haze pooling low around the coal plants. Sodium streetlights cast amber pools of light on access roads; lit windows glow in distant towns. Lush green deciduous trees and tall summer grass frame the foreground, leaves barely stirring in a light breeze. The painting is executed in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich impasto brushwork, deep tonal contrasts between the glowing industrial facilities and the darkening sky, atmospheric depth achieved through sfumato haze and carefully layered glazes, meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and panel frame. No text, no labels.