Wind and fading solar lead domestic generation, but a 20.5 GW import need drives prices to 137 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 19%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 15%
73%
Renewable share
15.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.3 GW
Solar
39.0 GW
Total generation
-20.6 GW
Net import
137.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.0°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
38.0% / 173.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
195
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.1 GW dominates the right half of the scene as expansive rows of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling green farmland, their blades barely turning in light wind; brown coal 5.9 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power complex with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes; solar 7.3 GW appears as a mid-ground field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels catching the last amber light; wind offshore 3.3 GW is visible on the far horizon as a line of distant turbines rising from a hazy sea; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial plant with wood-chip conveyors and a single tall stack amid trees; natural gas 2.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with sleek exhaust stacks and a small heat-recovery unit; hard coal 2.0 GW shows as a smaller conventional coal station with a single square cooling tower and coal conveyor; hydro 1.8 GW is a modest dam with spillway visible in a valley fold at the far left. TIME AND ATMOSPHERE: 19:00 Berlin midsummer dusk — the sun sits very low on the western horizon casting a deep orange-red glow across the lower sky, transitioning upward through salmon pink to a darkening blue-grey vault overhead; long golden shadows stretch across the landscape. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, with a faint haze hanging over the industrial structures reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is mild at 17°C with lush early-summer vegetation — bright green deciduous trees in full leaf, flowering meadows, ripe wheat fields. Cloud cover at 38% shows scattered cumulus clouds lit dramatically from below in copper and rose tones. 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 palette, visible confident brushwork, masterful atmospheric perspective with depth receding through multiple planes, chiaroscuro contrast between the glowing western horizon and the darkening eastern sky. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and three-blade rotors, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower geometry with interior steam condensation visible, aluminium PV panel frames with blue-black crystalline cells. The composition conveys industrial sublime — humanity's energy infrastructure set against the grandeur of a fading June evening. No text, no labels.