Brown coal, gas, and fading solar anchor a heat-stressed grid importing ~22 GW amid negligible wind.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 27%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 23%
47%
Renewable share
1.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.2 GW
Solar
33.7 GW
Total generation
-21.9 GW
Net import
253.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
30.0°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
52.0% / 241.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
356
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 7.9 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into a heavy, hazy sky; natural gas 7.1 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power blocks with tall slim exhaust stacks venting shimmering heat; solar 9.2 GW spans the centre-right as a vast field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels catching the last amber light of the descending sun; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed generating station with a squat smokestack and fuel yard; hard coal 2.7 GW sits behind the lignite plant as a smaller coal-fired station with a single rectangular cooling tower; hydro 1.8 GW is rendered as a concrete dam and spillway set into a forested hillside at the far right; wind onshore 0.9 GW appears as a few distant three-blade turbines on a ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 0.3 GW is a single faint turbine silhouette on the far horizon. Time of day is 19:00 Berlin dusk: the sky above transitions from a warm amber-orange glow along the low western horizon up through salmon and lavender into a darkening slate blue overhead — rapidly fading light, no full daylight. The atmosphere is oppressive and thick, a shimmering heat haze blankets the landscape at 30 °C, with scattered cumulus clouds at roughly half sky coverage lit from below in copper and peach tones. Lush, deep-green deciduous trees in full midsummer leaf frame the foreground, their foliage wilting slightly in the heat. High-voltage transmission pylons recede into the haze, symbolising the massive import flows. The overall mood is heavy and tense, reflecting the extreme electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric sfumato in the industrial haze — yet every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's hyperboloid curve, every PV module's cell grid is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.