Brown coal leads at 10 GW with gas and hard coal filling a cool night's 6.2 GW import gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 30%
40%
Renewable share
8.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
33.2 GW
Total generation
6.2 GW
Net import
175.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.6°C / 10 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
423
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, lit from below by amber sodium lamps; natural gas 6.7 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, illuminated by harsh industrial floodlights; hard coal 3.5 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal plant with a single large smokestack and conveyor belt silhouette; wind onshore 7.2 GW spans the right third as a row of modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers along a ridge, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the sky; wind offshore 1.0 GW is suggested by distant tiny blinking lights on the far-right horizon; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial building with a wood-chip silo and a modest chimney releasing pale smoke; hydro 1.0 GW is a small dam structure with illuminated spillway in the lower right foreground. Time is 02:00 — the sky is completely black, no twilight, no sky glow, a clear moonless night with sharp cold stars visible overhead through zero cloud cover. The air is cold at 5.6°C, early autumn — sparse deciduous trees at the scene's edges show leaves beginning to turn gold and brown. A light breeze of 9.5 km/h sets the turbine blades in slow rotation and slightly ruffles the steam plumes. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive despite clear skies, reflecting the high electricity price — a brooding, weighty industrial mood with dense amber and sodium-orange artificial lighting casting long shadows across dark fields. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between the glowing industrial facilities and the vast dark landscape, atmospheric depth with distant haze from cooling tower steam, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperboloid geometry, and gas turbine exhaust stack. No text, no labels.