Solar fading, wind calm, and heavy thermal dispatch drive 16.5 GW net imports on a hot summer evening.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 27%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 17%
64%
Renewable share
6.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.5 GW
Solar
31.8 GW
Total generation
-16.5 GW
Net import
147.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
31.4°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 263.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
252
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 8.5 GW occupies the right foreground as long rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels catching the last amber rays of a low sun; brown coal 5.3 GW dominates the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into still air; wind onshore 5.3 GW appears as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on rolling hills in the centre-right distance, their rotors nearly motionless in the calm; biomass 3.9 GW is represented by a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack with thin exhaust; natural gas 3.7 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting heat shimmer; hard coal 2.5 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with conveyor belts and a pair of rectangular stacks behind the lignite complex; hydro 1.8 GW is a concrete dam and spillway visible in the far right valley; wind offshore 0.9 GW appears as a faint cluster of turbines on a hazy horizon line. The sky is dusk at 19:00 in Berlin: a wide band of deep orange-red light hugs the western horizon, fading upward through salmon into a darkening blue overhead, completely cloudless. The landscape is midsummer central Germany — lush green deciduous trees and golden wheat fields, but the vegetation looks parched and wilted under 31°C heat. The atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, and stifling — heat haze shimmers above the fields and power plants. The air is utterly still, no motion in grass or leaves. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing western horizon and the darkening eastern sky, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and PV panel frame. The mood is grand, brooding, and monumental. No text, no labels.