Brown coal and gas anchor a 38.6 GW domestic stack while 20.7 GW of net imports bridge a large evening demand gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 13%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 30%
47%
Renewable share
8.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
5.0 GW
Solar
38.6 GW
Total generation
20.7 GW
Net import
251.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.6°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
90.0% / 85.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
382
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.4 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power complex with five hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white-grey steam plumes into the overcast; natural gas 5.4 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall slim exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.7 GW appears centre-right as a single large coal plant with a rectangular boiler house and two chimneys; solar 5.0 GW is rendered as a mid-ground field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels reflecting dim grey light, their surfaces muted under clouds; wind onshore 4.6 GW fills the right side as a line of fifteen three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly in moderate breeze across rolling late-summer farmland; wind offshore 3.4 GW is suggested by distant turbines on a hazy horizon line above a faintly visible North Sea coast; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a wood-clad biomass plant with a short stack and woodchip storage dome set among trees near centre; hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white water visible in the lower-right foreground. Time is 18:00 in mid-September — dusk is approaching, the sky carries a faint orange-red glow along the lowest horizon but is otherwise heavily overcast at 90% cloud cover, oppressive and grey-violet above, casting a warm but dim diffuse light. Temperature is 25.6 °C — vegetation is lush late-summer green, fields of mature grain stubble, heavy leafy trees. The atmosphere feels heavy and pressing, reflecting the 251.5 EUR/MWh price — humid air, haze between the power plants, a sense of industrial strain. High-voltage transmission lines with lattice pylons run across the middle ground, symbolising the enormous import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, deep colour saturation in ochres, slate greys, muted greens, and dusky amber. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower parabolic profiles, PV panel grid patterns. No text, no labels.