Gas, brown coal, and imports drive Germany's evening grid as solar fades and wind underperforms at 188 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 1%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 25%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 23%
41%
Renewable share
7.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.3 GW
Solar
33.0 GW
Total generation
-21.3 GW
Net import
188.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.3°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
93% / 28.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
390
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; natural gas 8.3 GW fills the centre-left as a cluster of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, their steel facades gleaming under floodlights; hard coal 3.5 GW appears centre-right as a darker, older coal station with a single large chimney and visible coal conveyors; onshore wind 6.4 GW stretches across the right quarter as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors turning slowly in light wind, red aviation warning lights blinking at the nacelles; offshore wind 0.9 GW is suggested by a faint cluster of turbine lights on the far-right horizon; biomass 4.6 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a domed digester and a wood-chip storage hall glowing warmly between the coal and wind sections; hydro 1.5 GW is rendered as a concrete dam and penstock structure nestled in a small valley in the middle distance; solar 0.3 GW is shown only as dormant dark panels on a rooftop in the foreground, completely unlit. The sky is fully dark — a deep navy-black night at 20:00 in late April — with 93% cloud cover forming a heavy, oppressive overcast ceiling that reflects the orange-amber industrial glow from below, no stars visible, no twilight remaining. The atmosphere feels dense and weighty, conveying the high electricity price. Spring vegetation — fresh green grass, budding deciduous trees — is barely visible in the artificial light, at roughly 15°C. A faint breeze stirs the grass. Transmission pylons and high-voltage lines stretch across the scene into the darkness, hinting at the massive import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — with rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth with haze and steam, and meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.