Brown coal and onshore wind lead generation as heavy cloud cover and cool temperatures drive high imports and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 3%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 27%
50%
Renewable share
8.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.8 GW
Solar
28.5 GW
Total generation
-19.2 GW
Net import
115.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.6°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
353
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 7.8 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes into the oppressive overcast sky; onshore wind 6.9 GW stretches across the right third as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers arrayed along a low ridge, blades turning slowly in light wind; natural gas 4.6 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks venting heat shimmer; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered centre-right as a cluster of wood-chip-fed industrial boiler buildings with short smokestacks and warm amber-lit loading bays; hard coal 1.9 GW sits behind the lignite plant as a smaller coal station with a single squat cooling tower and conveyor belt; hydro 1.7 GW appears in the mid-ground as a concrete dam spillway with white water cascading down; offshore wind 1.1 GW is glimpsed far in the background as faint silhouettes of turbines on the horizon; solar 0.8 GW is represented only by a small array of dark aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels lying dormant, unlit, reflecting nothing. Time is 05:00 pre-dawn in Berlin mid-June: the sky is deep blue-grey with the barest hint of pale steel light on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm tones above — all illumination comes from sodium streetlights casting orange pools, glowing industrial windows, and red aviation warning lights atop the cooling towers and turbine nacelles. The sky is 98% overcast with a heavy low cloud ceiling pressing down oppressively, reinforcing the high electricity price. The landscape is central German rolling farmland with fresh green vegetation appropriate for June but glistening with cold dew at 7.6 °C, grass bending slightly in gentle 9 km/h breeze. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, moody chiaroscuro between the artificial lights and the dark pre-dawn sky, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.