Brown coal, solar, and wind lead generation but 20 GW of net imports are needed under full cloud cover at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 29%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 19%
63%
Renewable share
7.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
11.2 GW
Solar
38.3 GW
Total generation
-20.1 GW
Net import
140.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.4°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 183.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
258
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
A panoramic scene at dusk (18:00 Berlin, June) with a rapidly fading orange-red glow confined to the lower horizon, the sky above darkening to deep slate-grey under total overcast. Brown coal 7.2 GW dominates the left quarter: a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge with the oppressive cloud layer, conveyor belts feeding raw brown coal from an open pit. Solar 11.2 GW occupies the centre-left as an expansive field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey diffuse light under the overcast sky, no direct sun visible. Wind onshore 6.2 GW spans the centre-right as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers across rolling green hills, blades turning slowly in moderate breeze. Natural gas 4.5 GW appears centre as two compact CCGT plants with slim exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer. Biomass 3.8 GW sits as a cluster of smaller industrial buildings with wood-chip storage silos and short chimneys emitting faint smoke. Hard coal 2.4 GW is rendered as a traditional coal-fired station with a single large smokestack and rail cars on adjacent tracks. Hydro 2.0 GW appears at the far right as a concrete dam with water cascading through spillways into a wooded valley. Wind offshore 1.0 GW is visible in the distant background as a faint row of turbines on the horizon line where land meets a sliver of grey sea. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 140.5 EUR/MWh price — thick low clouds press down on the landscape, the air feels humid at 17.4°C, lush green June vegetation covers the hillsides. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, sombre colour palette of burnt sienna, Payne's grey, and muted viridian, visible expressive brushwork, atmospheric depth with industrial haze blending into cloud. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, PV panel grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometry. The scene conveys the weight of an energy system straining under imports, a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.