Brown coal, gas, and imports anchor a cloudy May evening as wind and fading solar fall short of 50 GW demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 15%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 22%
53%
Renewable share
6.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.7 GW
Solar
31.2 GW
Total generation
-18.5 GW
Net import
142.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.1°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 52.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
330
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.7 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky; solar 4.7 GW appears in the left-centre as a field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels catching only flat, diffuse grey light with no sun visible; natural gas 4.4 GW occupies the centre as compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.3 GW sits right of centre as a wood-chip-fed industrial plant with a modest smokestack and conveyor belts feeding feedstock; wind onshore 3.8 GW fills the right-centre as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly in light breeze; hard coal 3.5 GW appears as a traditional coal plant with a pair of rectangular cooling towers and coal conveyors at right; wind offshore 2.4 GW is suggested in the far-right distance as turbines standing in a grey sea beyond coastal marshland; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and penstock structure tucked into a forested hillside at the far right edge. Time is 19:00 in mid-May: dusk with a rapidly fading orange-red glow barely visible along the very lowest horizon line, the sky above a deep slate grey graduating upward to near-darkness, 100% cloud cover forming a heavy oppressive ceiling reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is 9°C — spring foliage is fresh green but subdued, grass damp, atmosphere cool and humid. The landscape is broad central German terrain with gentle rolling hills. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich dark tonal palette of slate, umber, muted orange and deep green, visible confident brushwork, strong atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, panel frame, and exhaust stack. The mood is heavy, industrious, sombre. No text, no labels.