Fading solar and weak wind force heavy reliance on brown coal, gas, and hard coal, pushing prices above 127 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 28%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 19%
58%
Renewable share
6.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
12.2 GW
Solar
43.2 GW
Total generation
-11.7 GW
Net import
127.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.3°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
68% / 145.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
293
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.2 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising heavily into the sky; natural gas 6.2 GW appears left of centre as two compact CCGT power blocks with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.8 GW sits at centre-left as a single large coal plant with a square chimney and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel; solar 12.2 GW spans the entire right third as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels on angled racks catching the last orange light of the low sun; wind onshore 5.4 GW appears as a line of eight three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles on a rolling green hill behind the solar field, blades turning slowly; wind offshore 1.3 GW is visible far in the background as three distant turbines on a hazy horizon line; biomass 4.4 GW occupies the centre-right as a medium-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest smokestack with pale exhaust; hydro 1.6 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway in the far right background nestled in a wooded valley. Time is 18:00 in early May — a dusk scene with the sun very low on the western horizon, casting a deep amber-orange glow across the lower sky while the upper sky darkens to steel blue-grey with 68% cloud cover in layered altocumulus formations. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, haze thickening around the cooling towers, reflecting the high electricity price. Spring vegetation is lush — fresh green grass, budding deciduous trees — at a cool 12°C with light breeze barely stirring leaves. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with sfumato haze. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors on lattice or tubular towers, PV panels with visible cell grids and aluminium frames, lignite plant cooling towers with correct hyperboloid geometry, CCGT stacks with heat-distortion shimmer. The composition evokes the sublime tension between industrial power and fading natural light. No text, no labels, no human figures.