Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate a tight overnight grid requiring 1.8 GW net imports at elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 30%
34%
Renewable share
8.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
39.7 GW
Total generation
1.8 GW
Net import
171.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.2°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
458
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 12.1 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick silver-white steam plumes rising into blackness; hard coal 5.5 GW appears just left of centre as a pair of tall square-section boiler houses with lit gantries and conveyor belts feeding coal bunkers; natural gas 8.5 GW fills the centre as three compact CCGT blocks with slender cylindrical exhaust stacks venting pale heat shimmer, each turbine hall glowing amber from sodium floodlights; wind onshore 4.4 GW occupies the right-centre as a row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly on a dark ridge; wind offshore 4.5 GW is visible in the far right distance as red aviation warning lights dotting the horizon over an implied black sea; biomass 3.6 GW appears as a modest plant with a single stack and a wood-chip storage dome glowing under a yard light near the right foreground; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam spillway with white water catching artificial light at the far right edge. The sky is completely black, no moon, no twilight, clear with zero cloud cover, a few faint stars visible between the steam plumes. The overall atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — the air feels thick, the industrial light casts harsh orange pools on wet tarmac. Temperature is cool at 8 °C; early-autumn vegetation is dark green turning faintly yellow at the edges, barely visible in the industrial sodium glow. Ground-level air is nearly still, with only the faintest motion in grass. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy: correct nacelle shapes, three-blade rotors, aluminium-framed details, riveted boiler casings. No text, no labels.