Heavy coal and gas backstop fading solar under overcast skies as Germany imports roughly 23 GW at peak evening demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 25%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 23%
52%
Renewable share
4.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.2 GW
Solar
36.8 GW
Total generation
-23.3 GW
Net import
131.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.5°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
89.0% / 84.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
340
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into an overcast sky; hard coal 4.2 GW sits just right of centre as a dark industrial complex with conveyor belts and shorter rectangular stacks trailing smoke; natural gas 5.3 GW appears as a pair of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with slender single exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls occupying the centre-right; solar 9.2 GW fills the middle foreground as extensive rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels on green spring meadows, their surfaces dull and reflectionless under the heavy clouds; wind onshore 3.0 GW is rendered as a modest line of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on low rolling hills at the right, their blades barely turning in the light breeze; wind offshore 1.0 GW appears as a few distant turbines on a grey horizon line at far right; biomass 4.3 GW is shown as a medium-sized wood-chip-fed power station with a rounded silo and modest stack near the right foreground; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a wooded valley at far left. The sky is the key atmospheric element: it is dusk at 18:00 in April in Berlin, with a rapidly fading orange-red glow confined to the lowest band of the western horizon, the rest of the sky heavy, overcast at 89% cloud cover, darkening from slate grey overhead to deep indigo above, creating an oppressive ceiling that reflects the 131 EUR/MWh price pressure. The landscape is spring in central Germany—fresh green grass, budding deciduous trees at 17.5°C—but the mood is weighty and industrial. High-voltage transmission lines with lattice pylons stretch across the background, symbolising the massive import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth with layered aerial perspective, warm industrial glow against cool twilight sky—but every piece of energy infrastructure rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.