Brown coal, solar, gas, and imports sustain Germany's evening peak under full overcast with light winds.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 30%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 19%
61%
Renewable share
6.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
12.3 GW
Solar
40.6 GW
Total generation
-17.7 GW
Net import
127.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.1°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
276
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.7 GW dominates the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes into the grey sky; solar 12.3 GW occupies nearly a third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland in the centre-left, their surfaces dull under overcast light with no reflections; wind onshore 5.3 GW appears as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on gentle hills in the centre-right, blades turning sluggishly in faint breeze; natural gas 4.6 GW rendered as a pair of modern CCGT plants with slim exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls in the right-centre foreground; hard coal 3.5 GW shown as a coal-fired station with rectangular chimneys and coal conveyor belts slightly behind the gas plant; biomass 4.3 GW depicted as several medium-sized biomass CHP plants with squat chimneys and wood-chip storage silos beside them on the right; wind offshore 1.4 GW visible as faint silhouettes of offshore turbines on a distant grey sea horizon at the far right; hydro 1.5 GW as a small dam and penstock visible in a wooded valley in the far background. The sky is completely overcast at 100% cloud cover, heavy uniform grey-white ceiling pressing low, but the scene is lit with the warm amber-orange glow of dusk at 18:00 in May — a thin band of deep orange-red light glows along the lower horizon beneath the cloud deck, while the upper sky darkens to slate grey. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive reflecting 127.8 EUR/MWh pricing. Temperature 12°C: fresh green spring foliage on trees and meadows, cool tones in the grass. Light wind barely moves branches. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible expressive brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant elements. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors on lattice or tubular towers, aluminium-framed PV panels in neat rows, lignite cooling towers with correct hyperbolic geometry and condensation plumes, CCGT stacks with heat shimmer. The painting conveys the monumental scale of industrial energy infrastructure embedded in a moody May evening landscape. No text, no labels.