Solar leads at 12.9 GW with 9.1 GW wind, but 6.3 GW net imports needed to meet 42.2 GW evening demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 36%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 11%
77%
Renewable share
9.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
12.9 GW
Solar
35.9 GW
Total generation
-6.3 GW
Net import
127.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.5°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 216.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
154
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#2
Furnace Hour
Image prompt
Solar 12.9 GW dominates the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle green hills under diffuse grey light; wind onshore 6.8 GW fills the centre-right as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers across rolling farmland, blades turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 2.3 GW appears as a distant line of turbines on the far horizon above a grey sea glimpsed through a valley gap; biomass 4.4 GW occupies the centre-left as a cluster of wood-chip fed industrial plants with squat chimneys and thin white exhaust plumes; brown coal 3.9 GW stands in the left portion as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy steam plumes rising into the overcast, alongside an open-pit mine scar in the foreground earth; natural gas 3.1 GW sits as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and clean white flue gases beside the cooling towers; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a concrete dam and spillway nestled in a forested ravine at the far left; hard coal 1.0 GW is a small traditional power station with a single rectangular smokestack near the lignite plant. The sky is completely overcast at 18:00 Berlin dusk — a heavy, oppressive blanket of unbroken stratocumulus in pewter and slate grey, with only a thin band of warm amber-orange light bleeding along the lowest western horizon as the sun sets unseen behind the clouds. The atmosphere feels dense and weighty, reflecting the high electricity price. Lush late-spring vegetation — bright green deciduous trees in full leaf, tall grass, wildflowers — reflects the 25.5 °C warmth. The landscape is central German: gently undulating terrain with mixed agricultural and industrial use. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing horizon strip and the dark overcast above — yet every engineering detail is meticulous: turbine nacelles, rotor hubs, PV cell grids, cooling tower ribbing, CCGT heat-recovery housings. No text, no labels.