Brown coal dominates at 10.8 GW as calm winds and overcast skies suppress renewables, driving 22 GW net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 9%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 34%
38%
Renewable share
4.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.8 GW
Solar
32.0 GW
Total generation
22.0 GW
Net import
165.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.2°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
72.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
447
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.8 GW occupies the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into heavy cloud; natural gas 5.1 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks trailing thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.9 GW sits in the centre as a pair of large boiler houses with rectangular chimneys and coal conveyors; wind onshore 4.1 GW is rendered as a scattered row of seven three-blade turbines on a distant ridge to the right, rotors barely turning in the still air; biomass 3.7 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a rounded silo and short stack near centre-right; solar 2.8 GW is shown as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground, their surfaces dull and unreflective under the overcast sky; hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a concrete powerhouse visible at the far right beside a dark river; wind offshore 0.3 GW is barely suggested as one or two tiny turbine silhouettes on the far horizon. The sky is pre-dawn deep blue-grey at 06:00 Berlin time, with the first pale diffuse light appearing low on the eastern horizon — no direct sun, no golden tones — and 72% cloud cover creates a heavy, oppressive overcast pressing down on the landscape. The atmosphere feels thick and brooding, reflecting the high electricity price. Vegetation is lush midsummer green — tall grasses, full-canopy deciduous trees — but muted in the dim early light. Sodium-orange streetlights still glow along an access road. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the steam plumes, meticulous engineering detail on every technology: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors on lattice towers, cooling tower parabolic profiles, conveyor belt structures, panel racking. The scene reads as a monumental industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels.