Brown coal and gas dominate as near-calm winds, no solar, and full overcast drive 5.9 GW net imports at high prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 26%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 36%
27%
Renewable share
3.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
31.2 GW
Total generation
5.9 GW
Net import
182.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.7°C / 1 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
503
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast complex of hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into heavy cloud; natural gas 8.2 GW fills the centre-left as a row of modern CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.0 GW appears centre-right as a cluster of mid-sized industrial boiler buildings with wood-chip conveyors and modest chimneys trailing pale smoke; hard coal 3.2 GW sits to the right as a classical power station with stockpiled black coal and a pair of squarish cooling towers; wind onshore 1.9 GW is represented by a few three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors nearly motionless in the still air; wind offshore 1.7 GW appears as faint silhouettes of turbines on a grey horizon line over a flat sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain; hydro 0.9 GW is a small dam and spillway in the far right foreground with dark water. Time is early dawn at 06:00 in October: the sky is a deep blue-grey pre-dawn tone, no direct sunlight, no orange glow, only the faintest pale luminance along the eastern horizon obscured by 100% thick low stratus clouds. No solar panels anywhere — the sky is fully overcast and the sun has not risen. The atmosphere is heavy, oppressive, almost suffocating with low cloud pressing down, reflecting the 182.9 EUR/MWh price tension. Temperature is a chilly 8.7°C: sparse deciduous trees show early-autumn yellowing leaves, damp grass glistens faintly, mist clings to the river valley. Sodium streetlights cast amber pools along access roads between the plants. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, sombre colour palette of slate blues, warm ambers, ochre industrial glow, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with misty layering. Each technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor nacelles on lattice towers, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust stacks with heat-distorted air. The composition feels like a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.