Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate a 2 AM grid drawing 7 GW of net imports under overcast skies.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 7%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 32%
34%
Renewable share
7.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.7 GW
Total generation
7.0 GW
Net import
188.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.1°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
467
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.9 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers belching thick white-grey steam plumes into the black sky, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; natural gas 7.1 GW occupies the centre-left as a compact CCGT power station with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, its turbine halls glowing with interior light behind industrial windows; hard coal 5.2 GW appears centre-right as a large coal-fired plant with a prominent chimney stack and conveyor belts, coal bunkers illuminated by harsh white work lights; wind onshore 5.1 GW fills the right portion of the scene as a line of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers along a ridge, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the darkness, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 2.4 GW is suggested in the far-right background as distant nacelle lights dotting a black horizon over invisible sea; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack with a faint warm exhaust glow, positioned between the coal and wind installations; hydro 1.2 GW is a small run-of-river station at the bottom foreground, water gleaming faintly under a floodlit weir. The sky is completely black and starless, dense 100% cloud cover erasing all celestial light, creating a heavy oppressive canopy reflecting the orange-amber industrial glow from below. The atmosphere feels weighty and close, hinting at the high electricity price. Mid-September vegetation — dark deciduous trees with leaves just beginning their autumn turn — frames the foreground, grass damp with nighttime moisture at 13°C. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between industrial light sources and enveloping darkness, atmospheric depth with steam and haze layering the middle distance, technically precise engineering details on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.