Brown coal and gas dominate as pre-dawn darkness, heavy cloud, and cold temperatures drive high imports and elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 4%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 34%
37%
Renewable share
8.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.2 GW
Total generation
18.5 GW
Net import
220.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.2°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
96.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
449
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 12.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast sky, their concrete shells precisely rendered with vertical ribs and condensation streaks; natural gas 6.6 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; wind onshore 7.2 GW spans the centre-right as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice-and-tubular towers along a dark ridgeline, rotors turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 1.3 GW appears as a distant cluster of smaller turbines on the far horizon; hard coal 4.0 GW sits behind the brown coal complex as a traditional coal plant with a tall brick chimney and conveyor belt infrastructure; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip power station with a rounded silo and single stack on the right edge; hydro 0.8 GW appears as a small dam spillway in the far right background valley. Time is 06:00 in October: the sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn, no direct sun visible, the very first pale luminance on the eastern horizon barely distinguishing land from sky. Temperature is 6°C: autumn vegetation is muted brown and dull green, bare-branched trees, frost-touched grass. Cloud cover is 96%: the entire sky is a heavy oppressive blanket of low stratus, pressing down on the landscape, reinforcing the sense of expensive, strained supply. Sodium-orange industrial lights glow at the bases of the cooling towers and along the gas plant perimeter fences. A few lit windows in a distant village. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, moody chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.