Brown coal, gas, and solar lead a 31.8 GW domestic mix, with 26.8 GW net imports needed under calm, overcast skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 23%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 23%
45%
Renewable share
1.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.3 GW
Solar
31.8 GW
Total generation
-26.8 GW
Net import
226.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.9°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 62.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
375
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.4 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes into a heavy overcast sky; solar 7.3 GW fills the centre-left as an expansive field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled toward a cloud-smothered sky, their surfaces dull and unreflective under diffuse grey light; natural gas 6.2 GW appears centre-right as a pair of compact modern CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip-fed generating station with a modest stack and timber storage yard in the right-centre; hard coal 3.8 GW sits to the right as a traditional coal-fired station with rectangular cooling towers and conveyor belts carrying black fuel; hydro 2.0 GW appears in the far right as a concrete dam with water flowing through spillways; wind onshore 1.0 GW and wind offshore 0.2 GW appear as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors essentially motionless in the dead-calm air. The time is 19:00 on a June evening in central Germany — the sky is late dusk, a narrow band of muted orange-red glow lingering on the very lowest horizon, the rest of the sky a heavy oppressive blanket of dark grey overcast layered clouds pressing down, conveying the extreme electricity price. Lush green summer vegetation — deciduous trees in full leaf, tall grass — covers rolling terrain at about 21°C warmth. The atmosphere is humid, still, and weighty. Power lines on tall lattice pylons stretch across the midground, symbolising the massive import flows. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, moody colour palette of slate greys, warm ochres from cooling tower steam lit by the last dusk glow, deep greens in the foliage — with visible expressive brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.