Brown coal and gas dominate as near-calm winds and overcast skies force 19.6 GW of net imports on a cold morning.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 16%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 24%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 29%
37%
Renewable share
3.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
6.6 GW
Solar
42.0 GW
Total generation
19.6 GW
Net import
253.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.9°C / 2 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
430
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 12.1 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the grey sky; natural gas 9.9 GW fills the centre-left as a row of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks trailing thin vapour; hard coal 4.4 GW appears centre-right as a dark gritty coal-fired station with a single large chimney and conveyor belts feeding fuel; solar 6.6 GW is represented in the mid-ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces dull and unreflective under the dense overcast; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a cluster of medium-sized wood-chip-fed plants with modest stacks and woodpile yards; wind onshore 3.4 GW is shown as a sparse line of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors nearly motionless in the still air; wind offshore 0.5 GW is a faint hint of turbines barely visible on the far horizon; hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir with modest spillway in the foreground valley. Time is 08:00 in early October: full daylight but entirely diffused through a uniformly thick, oppressive, low grey cloud ceiling with no blue sky visible anywhere. Temperature near 5°C: brown and russet autumn foliage on deciduous trees, frost-tinged grass, breath-visible cold air. The atmosphere feels heavy and brooding, consistent with very high electricity prices — a dense, pressurised overcast pressing down on the industrial landscape. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, sombre earth tones, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, dramatic chiaroscuro in the steam and smoke, meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and panel frame. No text, no labels.