Brown coal, hard coal, and wind dominate a midday grid with negative prices driven by oversupply.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 18%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 18%
Brown coal 24%
52%
Renewable share
6.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
21.8 GW
Total generation
+21.8 GW
Net export
-0.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.5°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
60.0% / 197.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
365
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 5.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into the sky; hard coal 4.0 GW occupies the left-centre as a large coal-fired plant with tall square chimneys and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel into the boiler house; wind onshore 3.9 GW fills the centre-right as a cluster of modern three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers set across rolling green late-summer farmland, blades turning briskly in moderate wind; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack emitting pale exhaust, positioned behind the wind turbines; wind offshore 2.2 GW is visible in the far-right background as a row of turbines standing in a grey-blue sea along the horizon; natural gas 1.2 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, tucked between the coal plants; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and reservoir visible in a valley in the middle distance. The sky is midday bright but filtered through 60% broken cloud cover — patches of blue interrupted by large grey-white cumulus clouds, diffuse warm light casting soft shadows across lush green August vegetation, fields of ripening grain, and deciduous trees in full dark-green canopy. Temperature is a pleasant 20.5°C, conveyed by gentle summer atmosphere. The mood is calm and slightly heavy with industrial haze but not oppressive, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — with rich colour palette of forest greens, steel greys, warm ochres, and cloud whites, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with hazy depth toward the coast, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib structure, and coal conveyor mechanism. No text, no labels, no solar panels anywhere in the scene.