Brown coal, onshore wind, and gas dominate a tight 05:00 grid requiring 14 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 0%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 25%
43%
Renewable share
9.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.1 GW
Solar
34.4 GW
Total generation
-14.0 GW
Net import
126.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.9°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
388
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into heavy overcast; onshore wind 8.2 GW fills the right third as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling farmland, rotors turning moderately in 13 km/h wind; natural gas 7.2 GW occupies the centre-left as a pair of compact CCGT plants with slender single exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer; biomass 4.2 GW appears centre-right as a cluster of industrial biogas facilities with squat cylindrical digesters and small chimneys with faint exhaust; hard coal 3.8 GW sits behind the lignite station as a smaller coal plant with rectangular cooling towers and conveyor belts feeding from a dark coal heap; hydro 1.4 GW is rendered as a concrete dam and spillway visible in the far background valley; offshore wind 1.1 GW appears as a faint row of turbines on a distant horizon line. Time is 05:00 dawn in early May: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale pre-dawn luminance along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no sun disc visible, the landscape lit primarily by sodium-orange industrial floodlights on the power stations and faint ambient pre-dawn glow. Full 100% cloud cover creates a low, heavy, oppressive ceiling of stratus clouds pressing down on the scene, reinforcing the high electricity price atmosphere. Temperature is 8.9°C in early spring: fresh green grass and budding deciduous trees, but with a cool damp mist clinging to low ground between the turbines. No solar panels anywhere — it is dark and overcast. The mood is industrial, weighty, serious. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich dark palette of Prussian blue, raw umber, lamp black, and warm sodium orange — with visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack, evoking Caspar David Friedrich's sublime scale but applied to the modern energy landscape. No text, no labels.