Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as overcast skies and light winds suppress renewables, driving high prices and large net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 8%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 24%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 28%
36%
Renewable share
6.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.3 GW
Solar
42.8 GW
Total generation
-18.7 GW
Net import
162.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.6°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
89% / 30.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
439
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.9 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast lignite power station complex with four massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes; natural gas 10.4 GW fills the centre-left as a row of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer; hard coal 5.3 GW appears centre-right as a smaller classical coal plant with a single large smokestack and coal conveyors; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a cluster of wood-chip-fired CHP facilities with squat chimneys and steam; wind onshore 3.7 GW shows as a modest line of three-blade turbines on low hills in the right background, blades turning slowly; wind offshore 2.3 GW is suggested by distant turbines on a grey horizon line at far right; solar 3.3 GW appears as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground, reflecting almost no light under heavy clouds; hydro 1.5 GW is a small run-of-river station with visible weir at the far right edge. Time of day is 17:00 Berlin in mid-March — a dusk scene with a thin band of orange-red glow along the very low horizon, rapidly darkening sky above shading from deep amber to slate grey, 89% cloud cover creating a heavy oppressive overcast ceiling. Temperature around 10°C, early spring: bare deciduous trees with just a hint of budding, damp brown-green grass. Light wind barely stirs the landscape. The atmosphere is dense, weighty, and brooding, reflecting the 162 EUR/MWh price — an almost suffocating industrial haze hangs between the viewer and the distant turbines. Transmission pylons with high-voltage lines cross the mid-ground, symbolising the heavy import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich crossed with industrial realism — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric perspective with layers of coal-smoke haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and panel frame. The palette is dominated by umber, ochre, slate blue, and dull orange. No text, no labels.