Heavy overcast suppresses wind and dims solar; brown coal and net imports fill a 59.6 GW demand peak.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 39%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 24%
57%
Renewable share
2.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
16.7 GW
Solar
43.1 GW
Total generation
16.4 GW
Net import
177.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
28.5°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
97.0% / 117.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
314
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a sprawling lignite power complex with four massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes; solar 16.7 GW fills the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting only diffuse grey light; natural gas 4.5 GW appears as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer in the centre-left; hard coal 3.8 GW sits behind the lignite complex as a dark brick-chimneyed station with a conveyor belt and coal heap; biomass 3.7 GW is a modest wood-fired plant with a single rounded stack and timber storage yard at far right; wind onshore 2.3 GW shows a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a low ridge at far right, rotors barely turning in the still air; hydro 1.4 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir visible along a river in the middle distance; wind offshore 0.3 GW is a faint trio of turbines on the hazy horizon line. Time of day is 18:00 Berlin in July — dusk is just beginning, the sky is almost entirely overcast at 97% cloud cover with a heavy, oppressive grey-white blanket of stratocumulus, a thin strip of warm amber-orange light barely visible at the very low western horizon beneath the cloud layer. The atmosphere feels thick, humid, and sweltering at 28.5°C — lush dark-green summer vegetation, mature deciduous trees in full canopy, dry grass hinting at heatwave stress. The overall mood is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 177.7 EUR/MWh price — the sky presses down on the landscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour with warm ochres and cool slate-greys, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy — turbine nacelles, lattice towers, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT turbine housings. No text, no labels.