Heavy net imports of ~21.9 GW supplement solar, wind, and lignite as overcast skies and strong evening demand drive prices above 133 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 22%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 17%
66%
Renewable share
6.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
6.0 GW
Solar
27.5 GW
Total generation
-21.8 GW
Net import
133.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.7°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 17.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
233
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 6.0 GW occupies the right foreground as extensive rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on green summer fields, their surfaces dull under thick overcast with no direct sunlight; brown coal 4.6 GW dominates the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white-grey steam plumes merging into the cloud ceiling; wind onshore 5.5 GW spans the centre-right as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning at moderate speed; biomass 3.9 GW appears in the centre-left as a compact industrial plant with timber storage yards and a single exhaust stack trailing pale smoke; natural gas 3.3 GW sits as a pair of sleek CCGT units with slim exhaust stacks and bright-lit control buildings in the centre foreground; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a concrete dam structure with spillway visible at the far right middle-ground; hard coal 1.4 GW shows as a smaller coal plant with conveyor belts and a single squat cooling tower near the brown coal complex; wind offshore 1.1 GW is suggested by a distant row of turbines on the far horizon line. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover with a warm June evening at 19:00 Berlin time — the sun is still above the horizon but completely hidden, giving a flat diffused light with a faintly warm amber-grey quality near the western horizon and darkening blue-grey overhead, the beginning of dusk. Temperature is a pleasant 21.7°C reflected in lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf, tall grass, and wildflowers. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — the cloud deck presses down low, the air thick and humid. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with industrial haze, deep tonal contrasts between the warm foreground vegetation and the grey industrial backdrop, and meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV module busbar, and cooling tower shell. No text, no labels.