Brown coal, gas, and massive net imports of 30 GW drive Germany's expensive evening peak under cloudy skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 11%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 25%
44%
Renewable share
4.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.5 GW
Solar
30.7 GW
Total generation
-29.9 GW
Net import
172.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.7°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
70.0% / 128.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
382
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.8 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into a heavy sky; natural gas 6.1 GW occupies the left-centre as a pair of modern CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks emitting translucent heat shimmer; hard coal 3.1 GW appears centre-left as a smaller coal station with a single squat smokestack; biomass 4.6 GW sits in the centre as a wood-chip-fed industrial plant with a modest chimney trailing pale smoke; wind onshore 3.8 GW spans the right-centre as a line of slowly turning three-blade turbines on lattice towers across rolling farmland; solar 3.5 GW appears right of centre as rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a gentle hillside catching the last faint glow; hydro 1.4 GW is visible in the right foreground as a small dam with water cascading over a spillway; wind offshore 0.4 GW is barely suggested far in the background as a faint row of turbines on a distant grey sea horizon. The sky is a late-dusk April evening at 19:00 in central Germany — an orange-red band clings to the low western horizon, rapidly giving way to deep slate-blue and gathering grey-violet clouds overhead at 70% cloud cover, the light nearly gone. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a brooding, pressured sky bearing down on the industrial landscape. Spring vegetation is fresh green at 16.7°C, with young leaves on birches and elms, but the greenery is darkening in the fading light. Light wind barely stirs the grass. Sodium streetlights are beginning to flicker on along a road in the foreground. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the dying western glow and the industrial fires, atmospheric depth with haze and steam, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, PV panel frame, and smokestack. No text, no labels.