Brown coal and gas dominate as overcast skies and calm winds suppress renewables, driving 26.3 GW of net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 5%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 30%
37%
Renewable share
3.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.4 GW
Solar
28.5 GW
Total generation
-26.3 GW
Net import
160.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.4°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
440
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast sky; natural gas 5.5 GW occupies the centre-left as a pair of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks trailing thin exhaust; biomass 4.2 GW appears centre-right as industrial wood-chip furnace buildings with rectangular chimneys emitting pale smoke; hard coal 3.8 GW sits to the right of the biomass as a traditional coal-fired plant with a single large smokestack and conveyor belts of dark fuel; onshore wind 3.3 GW spans the far right as a row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers with rotors nearly motionless in the still air; solar 1.4 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground reflecting no sunlight under the thick clouds; hydro 1.4 GW is represented by a small concrete dam and spillway nestled in a valley at the far right edge; offshore wind 0.4 GW is a faint silhouette of a single turbine on the distant horizon. Time of day is early dawn at 06:00 — the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale pre-dawn luminance along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm tones, only cold diffuse twilight. Cloud cover is total: a thick unbroken ceiling of low stratus clouds presses down oppressively. Temperature is a cool 12°C spring morning — fresh green leaves on birch and linden trees in the mid-ground, damp meadow grass glistening faintly. The air is perfectly still, no motion in branches or flags. The atmosphere feels heavy and costly, with an oppressive industrial weight. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial Rhineland — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze and layered tonal recession, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. Sodium streetlights along an access road glow amber in the pre-dawn gloom. No text, no labels.