Diffuse solar leads at 22.6 GW but overcast skies, light winds, and 10.4 GW net imports drive prices to 105 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 49%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 16%
77%
Renewable share
7.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.6 GW
Solar
46.0 GW
Total generation
-10.4 GW
Net import
105.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.7°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 78.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
173
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 22.6 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green farmland, catching only diffuse grey light under total overcast; brown coal 7.2 GW commands the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the leaden sky, adjacent open-pit mine scars visible; wind onshore 5.4 GW appears as a line of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on low hills behind the solar fields, rotors turning sluggishly; biomass 4.0 GW is a mid-ground wood-chip-fed plant with a single square stack and modest steam; natural gas 2.3 GW sits as a compact CCGT facility with a tall slim exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer; wind offshore 1.7 GW is suggested on the far horizon as tiny turbine silhouettes above a hazy sea line; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway at the right edge; hard coal 1.2 GW is a single dark-brick power station with twin stacks near the lignite complex. The sky is entirely overcast at 17:00 Berlin dusk — a heavy, oppressive blanket of uniform cloud, the lower western horizon glowing a muted amber-orange as the sun begins to set behind the cloud layer, the upper sky darkening to slate grey. Late May vegetation: lush bright-green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers in meadow strips between panel rows. The atmosphere feels dense and warm at nearly 20 °C, air slightly hazy. The high electricity price is conveyed through the oppressive weight of the cloud ceiling pressing down on the industrial landscape. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower curve — evoking Caspar David Friedrich's brooding grandeur fused with industrial realism. No text, no labels.