Brown coal and gas dominate as overcast skies, low wind, and 17.7 GW net imports drive prices to 250 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 15%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 27%
41%
Renewable share
6.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
6.7 GW
Solar
44.0 GW
Total generation
17.8 GW
Net import
249.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.8°C / 4 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
403
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into heavy grey skies; natural gas 9.7 GW fills the centre-left as a row of modern CCGT plants with slim exhaust stacks trailing faint heat haze; hard coal 4.5 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with a single large chimney and coal conveyor belts; wind onshore 4.7 GW is rendered as a sparse line of three-blade turbines on distant rolling hills, rotors barely turning in still air; wind offshore 1.5 GW appears as tiny turbines on a grey horizon line near a sliver of North Sea; solar 6.7 GW is shown as fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dull and unreflective under the complete overcast; biomass 4.3 GW is depicted as a medium-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest smokestack; hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir with modest white water in a far corner. The time is 8:00 AM in early October — full daylight but entirely diffused, no shadows, a flat 100% overcast ceiling of uniform grey cloud pressing low over the landscape. Temperature is near 7°C: autumn deciduous trees show golden-brown foliage, some leaves falling, grass is damp and muted green. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the extreme electricity price — a brooding, weighty stillness over the industrial panorama. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and panel frame. No text, no labels.