Weak wind and overcast skies push brown coal and net imports to cover a 21 GW generation shortfall at dusk.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 33%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 23%
63%
Renewable share
3.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.5 GW
Solar
29.2 GW
Total generation
-21.3 GW
Net import
110.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.3°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 114.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
266
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.9 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into leaden skies; solar 9.5 GW occupies the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled on steel racks across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting grey overcast light; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a pair of mid-sized industrial plants with rounded storage silos and thin exhaust stacks trailing pale smoke in the centre-left middleground; natural gas 2.9 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, positioned behind the solar field; wind onshore 1.6 GW shows two or three large three-blade turbines on lattice towers on a low ridge at far right, their rotors barely turning in almost still air; wind offshore 1.7 GW is suggested by distant turbines on the far horizon line; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a thin cascade of water at the far left edge; hard coal 1.0 GW is a single older power station with a square chimney trailing dark smoke behind the brown coal towers. Time of day is 17:00 in April—dusk is beginning, with a narrow band of orange-red glow along the lower western horizon fading into heavy grey-purple overcast above; the sky feels oppressive and low, reflecting the high electricity price. The landscape is early-spring central German: fresh pale-green grass, budding deciduous trees, temperature around 12°C suggesting cool moist air. No wind ripples in the grass or trees. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, dramatic Caspar David Friedrich-like mood—but with meticulous modern engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, PV rack, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.