Brown coal and gas dominate as negligible wind and fading solar force heavy fossil dispatch and large net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 6%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 39%
29%
Renewable share
1.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.6 GW
Solar
29.0 GW
Total generation
17.7 GW
Net import
227.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.4°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
71.0% / 64.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
502
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.2 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising heavily into an overcast dusk sky; natural gas 6.1 GW fills the centre-left as three compact CCGT power blocks with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.2 GW appears centre-right as a gritty coal-fired station with conveyor belts and a single large smokestack; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as two medium-sized industrial biomass plants with rounded wood-chip silos and short stacks near the centre; solar 1.6 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground catching only the last weak orange-red glow of sunset, barely reflecting; wind onshore 0.8 GW is a pair of distant three-blade turbines on a ridge, rotors nearly still; wind offshore 1.0 GW appears as a few turbines on a far horizon line over a grey sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain; hydro 0.8 GW is a small dam spillway in the far right background. The sky is dusk at 18:00 Berlin time in early October — the lower horizon glows a muted orange-red band rapidly fading, while the upper sky is a heavy blanket of 71% cloud cover in slate-grey and bruised violet tones, creating a dense oppressive atmosphere reflecting the extreme 227.7 EUR/MWh price. Vegetation is early-autumn with yellowing deciduous trees at 17°C. The air is almost completely still — no motion in grass, flags, or turbine blades. Transmission towers with high-voltage lines stretch toward the horizon, symbolising import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro lighting, atmospheric haze around the cooling towers, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, lattice tower, PV frame, and boiler house. No text, no labels.