Solar leads at 24.2 GW but 9.7 GW net imports are needed as consumption outpaces domestic generation at dusk.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 54%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 8%
86%
Renewable share
9.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.2 GW
Solar
45.0 GW
Total generation
-9.7 GW
Net import
104.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.8°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
89.0% / 298.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
95
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.2 GW dominates the centre and right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland; wind onshore 7.5 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers arrayed along a ridgeline in the mid-ground; wind offshore 1.7 GW is suggested by a distant cluster of turbines on the hazy horizon at far right; brown coal 3.5 GW occupies the far left as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes from a lignite power station; biomass 3.7 GW appears as a medium-scale industrial plant with a wood-chip yard and single exhaust stack beside a copse of trees, left-centre; natural gas 2.2 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a tall slender exhaust stack and heat-recovery unit, placed between the coal plant and the biomass facility; hydro 1.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse nestled along a green riverbank in the lower foreground; hard coal 0.4 GW is a small older brick smokestack just visible behind the brown coal towers. The sky is a heavy, oppressive 89% overcast — layered grey and slate clouds pressing low — but with a vivid orange-red glow along the lower western horizon where the sun is setting at 17:00 Berlin dusk, casting long amber and copper light across the landscape. The upper sky darkens to steel-blue. The high electricity price is evoked by the brooding, weighty atmosphere. Green June vegetation — lush grass, leafy deciduous trees, crops in fields — at 18.8°C with a moderate breeze bending the grass. Transmission lines with lattice pylons run across the scene, subtly suggesting import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro from the dusk light, meticulous engineering accuracy on all turbine nacelles, PV panel frames, cooling tower geometry, and CCGT stacks. No text, no labels.