Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as wind collapses and fading solar drives massive imports at 400 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 15%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 23%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 30%
33%
Renewable share
1.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
5.4 GW
Solar
36.3 GW
Total generation
22.7 GW
Net import
400.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.1°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
58.0% / 64.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
460
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.7 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast complex of hyperbolic cooling towers rising against the sky, thick white-grey steam plumes drifting heavily in still air; natural gas 8.4 GW fills the centre-left as a cluster of modern CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting shimmering heat; hard coal 5.0 GW appears centre-right as a dark industrial block with conveyor belts, square chimneys, and coal stockpiles; solar 5.4 GW occupies the right foreground as rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels catching the last weak amber-orange light on their surfaces; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-ground facility with cylindrical silos and wood-chip storage; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a modest dam and spillway structure in the far right middle distance; wind onshore 0.7 GW and wind offshore 0.9 GW are shown as a small handful of three-blade turbines on lattice towers in the far background, blades completely still in the calm air. The sky is a dusk scene at 18:00 in September — the sun has dropped low, painting a narrow band of deep orange-red along the lower horizon while the upper sky darkens to steel blue-grey; 58% cloud cover creates layered stratus formations that trap and diffuse the fading light oppressively. The atmosphere is heavy and brooding, conveying the tension of extreme electricity prices — a thick, hazy quality hangs over the entire industrial panorama. Late-summer vegetation with green but slightly tired deciduous trees frames the foreground. Temperature is warm at 21°C, with no wind motion in foliage or smoke plumes — everything hangs vertically. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto colour, visible deliberate brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every cooling tower, turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, and exhaust stack. The industrial sublime: a monumental landscape of human energy infrastructure at the edge of evening. No text, no labels.