Brown coal, solar, and imports dominate as overcast skies and moderate wind leave a 19.7 GW supply gap at dusk.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 28%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 21%
59%
Renewable share
7.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
11.3 GW
Solar
40.4 GW
Total generation
-19.7 GW
Net import
128.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.2°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 103.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
294
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#1
Dead Calm
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers issuing thick white steam plumes into a heavy grey sky; solar 11.3 GW fills the centre-left as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land, their glass surfaces reflecting only grey diffuse light; wind onshore 6.1 GW occupies the centre-right as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice-and-tubular towers turning slowly in light breeze; natural gas 4.3 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and a visible heat shimmer beside a substation; biomass 4.1 GW is a wood-chip-fed industrial plant with a modest smokestack and timber storage yard in the right midground; hard coal 3.7 GW is rendered as a traditional coal plant with conveyor belts and a tall brick chimney behind the gas units; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir with white churning water in the far right distance; wind offshore 0.9 GW is faintly visible on the far horizon as a cluster of turbines beyond a grey sea line. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, 17:00 dusk lighting with a dim orange-red glow barely visible on the western horizon beneath a vast oppressive blanket of grey-charcoal clouds pressing down — the atmosphere feels heavy and costly, conveying the high electricity price. The season is mid-spring: fresh green foliage on birch and linden trees, rapeseed fields in muted yellow under the flat light, temperature of 19°C suggested by light clothing on two distant workers near the substation. Transmission towers and high-voltage lines traverse the scene, connecting the disparate plants. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich, layered colour with visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich crossed with industrial realism, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV cell's blue-grey shimmer. No text, no labels.