Brown coal and imports dominate as overcast skies and light winds limit renewables during the evening demand peak.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 16%
Biomass 19%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 24%
53%
Renewable share
2.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.9 GW
Solar
24.1 GW
Total generation
-27.3 GW
Net import
150.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.4°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 30.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
334
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 5.9 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast sky; biomass 4.6 GW appears as a complex of industrial CHP facilities with tall chimneys and woodchip conveyors just left of centre; solar 3.9 GW is rendered as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre-left middle ground, their surfaces dull and unreflective under the heavy clouds; natural gas 3.6 GW fills the centre-right as two compact CCGT power plants with single tall exhaust stacks emitting thin heat haze; wind onshore 2.5 GW appears as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on gentle hills to the right, rotors turning slowly; hard coal 2.0 GW sits in the right-centre background as a traditional coal plant with rectangular cooling towers and coal conveyors; hydro 1.2 GW is a modest concrete dam and reservoir visible in the far right valley; wind offshore 0.4 GW is barely suggested as tiny turbine silhouettes on a distant hazy horizon line. The sky is completely overcast with heavy, oppressive, low stratiform clouds in shades of grey and slate, pressing down on the landscape — no blue sky visible anywhere. The lighting is late dusk at 19:00 in late April: a fading orange-red glow barely visible along the lowest sliver of the western horizon, the sky above rapidly darkening to deep blue-grey and charcoal, the landscape mostly in shadow with the first sodium-orange streetlights flickering on along roads. Spring vegetation — fresh green grass, budding deciduous trees — at about 14°C, lush but muted in the failing light. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, sombre colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and panel frame. No text, no labels.