Brown coal, hard coal, gas, and wind power a cold 1 AM grid needing 2.4 GW net imports at high prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 0%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 31%
43%
Renewable share
11.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
39.8 GW
Total generation
-2.4 GW
Net import
109.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.8°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
2% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
417
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 12.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers belching thick white steam plumes into the black sky; hard coal 5.2 GW appears center-left as a pair of smaller coal plant stacks with red aviation lights and visible coal conveyor gantries; natural gas 5.4 GW fills the center as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin pale vapor, lit by sodium floodlights; wind onshore 10.3 GW spans the right third as a long receding line of three-blade turbine silhouettes on lattice and tubular towers stretching to the horizon, their nacelle warning lights blinking red; wind offshore 1.4 GW suggested by a faint cluster of red blinking lights on the far-right horizon implying a distant sea; biomass 4.0 GW shown as a mid-ground industrial biogas facility with a green-lit dome digester and small chimney; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small dam structure in the lower right with illuminated spillway. TIME: 1:00 AM, completely dark — deep black sky with scattered cold stars, absolutely no twilight or sky glow, only artificial lighting. The landscape is flat central German terrain with bare early-March trees, patches of frost on dormant brown fields, temperature near 4°C conveyed by visible breath-like steam and rime on metal structures. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive reflecting 109 EUR/MWh prices — a brooding, almost suffocating industrial weight pressing down. The sky is 98% clear so stars are sharp but the air itself feels thick near the plants with haze from thermal exhaust. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters like Caspar David Friedrich, but depicting an industrial nocturne — rich dark palette of deep navy, burnt umber, ochre sodium-light glow, and cool blue-grey steel; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with distant turbine lights fading into haze; meticulous engineering detail on cooling tower parabolic curves, three-blade rotor geometry, CCGT exhaust architecture; the painting conveys sublime industrial awe and nocturnal tension. No text, no labels.