Coal and gas dominate domestic supply as wind stalls and solar fades, driving 23.6 GW of net imports at elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 24%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 22%
46%
Renewable share
2.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.6 GW
Solar
39.8 GW
Total generation
-23.6 GW
Net import
126.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.6°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 56.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
368
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 8.9 GW occupies the left quarter as a sprawling lignite complex with four massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, conveyor belts feeding open-pit coal into boiler houses; natural gas 8.4 GW fills the centre-left as two modern CCGT power stations with tall slender exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls, heat shimmer rising from their outlets; hard coal 4.3 GW appears centre-right as a traditional coal-fired station with a single large smokestack and coal bunkers; solar 9.6 GW spreads across the right third as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey light under the overcast; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a cluster of wood-chip-fed CHP plants with rounded silos and modest stacks; wind onshore 2.2 GW appears as a handful of three-blade turbines on a low ridge, their rotors completely still in the dead-calm air; wind offshore 0.4 GW is suggested as tiny turbines on a far horizon line barely visible through haze; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a valley at the far right edge. Time of day is 18:00 Berlin in mid-April: the sky is a rapidly fading dusk with a low orange-red glow barely visible along the western horizon, the upper sky darkening to slate grey, entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover—no clear sky visible anywhere. The atmosphere is heavy, oppressive, and humid, reflecting the high electricity price. Vegetation is fresh spring green—new leaves on birch and linden trees, bright grass—at 18.6°C. No wind motion whatsoever in trees or grass. Power lines on lattice pylons stretch between the facilities, suggesting heavy current flow from imports. Rendered as a 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 visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the darkening overcast sky. Each energy technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy—turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, lattice towers, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT stacks, PV panel grid lines. The mood is solemn and monumental. No text, no labels.