Brown coal and imports dominate as overcast skies and moderate wind leave a 23 GW supply gap at dusk.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 17%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 23%
54%
Renewable share
8.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
6.3 GW
Solar
37.7 GW
Total generation
-23.1 GW
Net import
145.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.8°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 24.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
325
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the overcast sky; wind onshore 7.2 GW fills the centre-right as two dozen three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers spread across rolling green farmland, their rotors turning slowly in light breeze; solar 6.3 GW appears in the centre-left foreground as extensive rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on a flat field, their surfaces dull and reflecting only grey sky; natural gas 4.9 GW is rendered as a pair of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and horizontal heat-recovery boilers, positioned centre-left behind the solar field; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fed power station with a short smokestack and log storage yard in the middle distance; hard coal 3.8 GW shows as a traditional coal plant with conveyor belts and a single large stack trailing thin grey smoke on the far left behind the lignite station; hydro 1.5 GW is a small run-of-river dam visible in a valley at the far right; wind offshore 1.2 GW is barely glimpsed as tiny turbine silhouettes on the distant horizon line. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, heavy grey-white stratiform clouds pressing low, with a narrow band of dull orange-red light at the very bottom of the western horizon marking 18:00 dusk in May — the upper sky darkening to blue-grey. The atmosphere feels oppressive and heavy, reflecting the 145.8 EUR/MWh price. Spring vegetation: fresh green deciduous trees with full leaf, bright green grass, wildflowers in the foreground. Temperature is mild at 17.8°C. High-voltage transmission lines with steel pylons stretch across the scene, symbolizing the massive import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette of greys, muted greens, burnt orange at horizon — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower contour, every PV panel frame. No text, no labels.