Solar fading at dusk, weak wind, and heavy thermal and import reliance drive prices above 150 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 29%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 18%
65%
Renewable share
4.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.8 GW
Solar
27.1 GW
Total generation
-18.2 GW
Net import
150.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.6°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
4.0% / 242.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
249
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 7.8 GW occupies the right quarter of the scene as expansive rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on green meadows, their surfaces catching the last warm orange-red light of the low sun. Brown coal 4.8 GW dominates the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a cluster of medium-scale industrial plants with rectangular buildings and modest chimneys emitting thin smoke, positioned left of centre. Wind onshore 3.1 GW is rendered as a modest line of five three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the centre-right middle distance, their rotors turning slowly in light breeze. Natural gas 2.6 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with single tall exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 2.0 GW appears as a dark industrial complex with conveyor belts and a single large smokestack near the brown coal towers on the far left. Wind offshore 1.2 GW is visible as a tiny row of turbines on a distant hazy horizon line at the far right. Hydro 1.6 GW is suggested by a river with a small dam and powerhouse in the right foreground. Time is 19:00 late May dusk in central Germany: the sky is a gradient from deep warm orange-red at the low western horizon fading rapidly upward through amber to a darkening steel-blue overhead, with only 4% cloud cover — a few thin wisps catching pink light. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, conveying high electricity prices — a subtle haze clings to the industrial structures, and the warm 26.6°C air shimmers faintly. Lush late-spring vegetation — tall green grass, leafy deciduous trees in full canopy — surrounds the infrastructure. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro between the glowing western horizon and the darkening eastern sky. Each energy technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy — turbine nacelles, lattice towers, PV cell grids, cooling tower parabolic geometry, conveyor gantries. The scene feels like a monumental masterwork painting of Germany's industrial-natural landscape at the golden hour. No text, no labels.