Brown coal and gas dominate as overcast, calm dawn leaves wind weak and solar absent, driving heavy imports and high prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 2%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 25%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 37%
29%
Renewable share
4.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
33.7 GW
Total generation
18.3 GW
Net import
221.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.2°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
87.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
497
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 12.5 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into heavy clouds; natural gas 8.3 GW fills the centre-left as a row of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks venting translucent heat haze; hard coal 3.2 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with a single rectangular boiler house and chimney stack trailing dark smoke; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a timber-clad industrial plant with a modest smokestack and stacked woodchip piles in its yard; wind onshore 4.1 GW appears as a modest line of three-blade turbines on a low ridge in the right background, rotors barely turning in light wind; wind offshore 0.7 GW is suggested by two distant turbines on a hazy horizon line; hydro 0.8 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white water visible in the lower-right foreground. Time is early dawn, 06:00 in early October: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale pre-dawn luminance along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no sun disc visible. Cloud cover is 87%, so the sky is almost entirely blanketed in low stratus clouds with only narrow breaks showing darker sky. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting a 221.7 EUR/MWh price — a dense, almost suffocating quality to the air, steam and smoke merging with the overcast. Temperature is a mild 14°C: vegetation is early-autumn, with deciduous trees in muted green-gold, grass still green but dew-covered. Sodium-orange streetlights and facility lights glow warmly across the industrial complex, reflecting off wet surfaces. No solar panels anywhere. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.