Evening import dependency as wind and coal-gas dispatch cover demand under full overcast with solar near zero.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 2%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 16%
48%
Renewable share
13.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.9 GW
Solar
42.9 GW
Total generation
-18.0 GW
Net import
164.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.0°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
343
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 11.4 GW dominates the right third of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green April hills, rotors turning slowly in light wind. Brown coal 6.9 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick grey-white steam plumes into the heavy sky. Natural gas 9.7 GW fills the centre-left as several compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 5.8 GW appears just left of centre as a large coal-fired station with rectangular boiler buildings, conveyor belts, and a single broad smokestack. Biomass 4.6 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a rounded silo and wood-chip storage yard near the centre-right. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam and penstock nestled in a valley in the far background. Solar 0.9 GW is represented only by a tiny, dim array of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the near foreground, barely visible and reflecting no sunlight. The time is 19:00 in mid-April Berlin—deep dusk with a narrow band of dying orange-red glow hugging the lowest horizon, the sky above rapidly darkening to slate grey and deep navy. The sky is completely overcast at 100% cloud cover, a thick oppressive blanket of stratus clouds pressing down, conveying the weight of the 164.5 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is a cool 10°C; early spring vegetation is fresh but muted in the fading light—pale green grass, bare-branched trees just beginning to bud. A few sodium streetlights along a country road flicker on, casting amber pools. The overall atmosphere is heavy, industrial, brooding. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich dark colour palette of slate, umber, ochre, and deep green, visible textured brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the darkening landscape. Meticulous engineering accuracy on all turbine nacelles, cooling tower geometries, and plant structures. No text, no labels.