Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as near-calm winds, full overcast, and freezing temperatures drive 18.8 GW net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 9%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 28%
37%
Renewable share
5.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.8 GW
Solar
42.2 GW
Total generation
-18.8 GW
Net import
191.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
0.5°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
436
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.7 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers pouring dense white steam plumes into the heavy sky; natural gas 9.5 GW fills the centre-left as three tall CCGT exhaust stacks with shimmering heat haze rising from their turbine halls; hard coal 5.6 GW appears centre-right as a dark gantry-laden coal plant with conveyor belts and a single large chimney trailing grey smoke; wind onshore 5.2 GW is rendered as a sparse line of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors almost motionless in the dead-calm air; biomass 4.4 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a modest plume; solar 3.8 GW is shown as a field of aluminium-framed crystalline PV panels in the right foreground, their surfaces dark and reflective under the heavy overcast, producing almost nothing; hydro 1.7 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir glimpsed along a frost-edged river in the middle distance; wind offshore 0.4 GW is barely hinted at by a single tiny turbine silhouette on the far horizon. The time is 7:00 AM in early March — the sky is a pre-dawn deep blue-grey with no direct sunlight, only the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon barely distinguishing land from sky. The atmosphere is oppressively heavy, reflecting the extreme 191.6 EUR/MWh price — low thick stratus clouds press down on the landscape like a ceiling of iron. Temperature is 0.5 °C: frost coats every surface, bare winter branches are rimmed white, patches of old snow cling to furrows in the foreground field, and breath-like mist curls from every warm exhaust. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — with rich, sombre earth tones of umber, slate blue, and ash grey, visible impasto brushwork, and deep atmospheric perspective. Each power technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, cooling tower parabolic curves, conveyor gantries, aluminium panel frames. Sodium-orange lights glow from the plant buildings, casting warm reflections on frost-covered ground. No text, no labels.