Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as negligible wind and fading solar force heavy imports at peak evening demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 4%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 30%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 35%
22%
Renewable share
0.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.4 GW
Solar
33.1 GW
Total generation
27.6 GW
Net import
339.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.6°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 88.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
529
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.5 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white-grey steam plumes into the sky; natural gas 9.9 GW fills the centre-left as a row of modern CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting heat shimmer; hard coal 4.2 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with rectangular mechanical-draft cooling towers and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a wood-chip fueled CHP plant with a modest smokestack and log storage yard beside it; solar 1.4 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground, their surfaces reflecting the last orange glow of dusk but generating little; wind onshore 0.6 GW is represented by two or three distant three-blade turbines on a ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air; hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river station visible along a canal at far right; wind offshore 0.3 GW is a pair of tiny turbine silhouettes on the far horizon line. Time is 18:00 in early October: the sky is a dusk gradient with a narrow band of deep orange-red along the lower horizon fading quickly upward into dark slate blue and near-black overhead. The air feels heavy, oppressive, hazy — reflecting the extreme 339.6 EUR/MWh price — with a faint industrial pall hanging over the landscape. Temperature is mild at 19.6°C; vegetation is early-autumn green-gold, with deciduous trees beginning to turn. The atmosphere is almost windless, no motion in grass or leaves. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every cooling tower, turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.