Brown coal and gas anchor thermal output while overcast skies and moderate wind drive high prices and 17.4 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 14%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 21%
52%
Renewable share
7.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.7 GW
Solar
33.2 GW
Total generation
-17.4 GW
Net import
138.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.3°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
325
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.0 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes into the grey sky; natural gas 6.1 GW occupies the left-centre as three compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; onshore wind 6.4 GW spreads across the centre-right as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers turning slowly in light breeze across rolling green fields; solar 4.7 GW appears in the right-centre as rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a hillside, but reflecting only diffuse grey light with no sunshine; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and single smokestack in the middle distance; hard coal 2.8 GW shows as a smaller coal plant with conveyor belts and a single rectangular cooling tower trailing steam at the far left; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway nestled in a forested valley at the far right; offshore wind 0.9 GW is visible on the distant horizon as a faint line of turbines above a grey sea. The sky is completely overcast with heavy, low, uniform stratiform clouds in tones of slate and pewter — no sun visible, no blue sky — creating an oppressive, dense atmosphere reflecting the high electricity price. The lighting is early dawn, 06:00 in June: a pale, cold, blue-grey pre-dawn glow seeps from the eastern horizon beneath the cloud layer, casting no shadows, illuminating the landscape in flat diffuse light. The temperature is mild at 15 °C; lush mid-June vegetation covers the hills and fields in deep green, grasses damp with morning dew. The composition is a wide panoramic vista across the German central highlands. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the distance — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV panel's cell grid. No text, no labels.