Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as near-calm winds and overcast skies drive 19 GW of net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 19%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 24%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 25%
40%
Renewable share
2.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.3 GW
Solar
38.9 GW
Total generation
-19.0 GW
Net import
141.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.0°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 149.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
403
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into the overcast sky; natural gas 9.4 GW fills the centre-left as a row of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer; hard coal 4.2 GW appears centre-right as a dark industrial complex with a single large chimney and conveyor belts feeding from a coal heap; solar 7.3 GW is rendered as a broad field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels in the right foreground, their surfaces reflecting the dull grey light, angled toward the low western sky; biomass 4.4 GW sits behind the solar field as a wood-clad biomass plant with a modest smokestack and timber storage yard; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a concrete dam and spillway tucked into a green valley in the far right background; wind onshore 1.4 GW shows as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning; wind offshore 1.0 GW is suggested by tiny turbines visible on a hazy horizon line far left. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, but this is 18:00 in mid-April Berlin—dusk is beginning, with a dim orange-red glow along the lowest western horizon beneath the heavy cloud layer, the upper sky darkening to slate grey. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting 141.9 EUR/MWh pricing. Spring vegetation—fresh green grass, budding deciduous trees at 17°C—softens the foreground. Air is still, no motion in foliage. High-voltage transmission pylons recede into the haze in multiple directions, cables heavy with imported current. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich impasto brushwork, Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth combined with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision—dramatic chiaroscuro, warm sodium-orange industrial lighting beginning to glow against the cooling dusk. No text, no labels.