Brown coal and gas dominate evening generation as high temperatures and full overcast drive 19.5 GW of net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 3%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 28%
45%
Renewable share
7.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.7 GW
Solar
28.2 GW
Total generation
19.5 GW
Net import
176.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
29.0°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 3.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
388
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the dark sky, lit from below by orange sodium lights; wind onshore 5.9 GW occupies the right third as a long ridge of three-blade turbines with slowly turning rotors, their aviation warning lights blinking red against the black sky; natural gas 4.6 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin plumes, illuminated by industrial floodlights; biomass 4.0 GW appears centre-right as a mid-sized plant with a tall chimney and stacked timber yards, warmly lit by facility lighting; hard coal 2.8 GW is visible behind the brown coal towers as a smaller power station with conveyor belts and a coal heap, spotlit in harsh white; wind offshore 1.1 GW is suggested in the far background as a faint line of offshore turbine lights on the distant dark horizon; hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small illuminated dam structure nestled in a valley in the mid-ground right; solar 0.7 GW is represented only by a barely visible row of dark, unlit aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground, reflecting no light. The sky is completely dark, a deep navy-black without any twilight glow — it is full night at 20:00 in August under total overcast, so no stars are visible either, just a heavy low ceiling of dark clouds faintly underlit by the industrial glow below. The air feels thick and oppressively warm at 29 °C — lush green summer vegetation, full-leafed deciduous trees along the foreground, grass slightly wilted from heat. A moderate breeze animates the scene: tree branches sway, steam plumes bend and shear. The atmosphere is heavy and brooding, reflecting the high electricity price — an oppressive industrial haze hangs over the landscape. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, saturated colour with visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic chiaroscuro from artificial lighting against the dark overcast sky. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors on lattice towers, lignite hyperbolic cooling towers with correct proportions, CCGT stacks with heat shimmer. The painting evokes the sublime tension between nature and industry. No text, no labels.