Brown coal and gas anchor thermal output while moderate wind and fading solar leave Germany importing ~10 GW at dusk.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 14%
Solar 13%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 23%
51%
Renewable share
13.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
6.7 GW
Solar
49.5 GW
Total generation
-9.9 GW
Net import
139.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.9°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 64.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
339
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into heavy overcast; natural gas 8.6 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting translucent heat shimmer; hard coal 4.2 GW appears behind the gas units as a smaller set of conventional boiler-house buildings with square chimneys; wind onshore 5.9 GW occupies the centre-right as a line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers on low rolling hills, blades turning slowly in light 5 km/h wind; wind offshore 7.0 GW is suggested in the far background as distant turbines along the horizon line over a grey sea inlet; solar 6.7 GW appears as a field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground, their surfaces dull and reflecting only grey sky, no sunlight glint; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip CHP plant with a conveyor belt and modest stack near the wind turbines; hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with turbine house at the far right edge beside a dark river. Time of day is 17:00 late March dusk in central Germany: the sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, a narrow band of muted orange-red glow clings to the lowest horizon beneath a thick ceiling of grey-violet clouds rapidly darkening above, the overall atmosphere is heavy and oppressive reflecting the 139 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is a chilly 5.9 °C; bare deciduous trees with only the earliest hint of spring buds line the riverbank, dead brown grass covers the foreground fields. The landscape is flat north-German plain. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, sombre colour palette of umber, slate grey, dull orange, and cold violet; visible confident brushwork; deep atmospheric perspective with industrial haze; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, PV panel frame, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.