Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as negligible wind and absent solar drive massive imports and extreme prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 1%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 29%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 28%
29%
Renewable share
2.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.3 GW
Solar
29.8 GW
Total generation
-25.9 GW
Net import
660.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
28.6°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 40.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
479
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#2
The Spike
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a dense cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into a dark night sky, illuminated from below by orange sodium lights; natural gas 8.6 GW fills the center-left as several compact CCGT plant blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting heat shimmer, lit by harsh industrial floodlights; hard coal 4.1 GW appears center-right as a coal-fired station with a tall rectangular boiler house and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel, glowing under amber security lights; biomass 4.1 GW sits to the right as a medium-scale biomass plant with cylindrical wood-chip silos and a modest smokestack with faint grayish plume; wind onshore 2.0 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the still air, red aviation warning lights blinking; hydro 1.8 GW is represented by a dam with spillway visible at the far right edge, water glistening faintly under moonless sky; wind offshore 0.4 GW suggested by a few tiny turbine silhouettes on the far horizon. The sky is completely black — no twilight, no glow — a hot midsummer night at 21:00 in Berlin, stars faintly visible but the atmosphere feels heavy, humid, and oppressive, conveying the extreme 660 EUR/MWh electricity price. The air above the cooling towers shimmers with trapped heat at 28.6 °C. Lush green deciduous trees in full summer foliage line the foreground, leaves motionless in the near-calm wind. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between industrial fire-glow and the surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth with haze from cooling tower steam, technically accurate engineering details on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.