Strong onshore wind drives 79% renewables at pre-dawn, with coal and gas providing residual thermal baseload.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 54%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 1%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 8%
79%
Renewable share
30.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.6 GW
Solar
46.3 GW
Total generation
1.4 GW
Net import
86.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.1°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
146
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 25.1 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and engineered nacelles stretching across rolling central German hills from centre to far right, blades slowly turning in light breeze; wind offshore 5.5 GW appears in the distant background as a cluster of taller offshore turbines barely visible on the horizon line behind a dark coastal silhouette; brown coal 3.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising into the dark sky, lit from below by amber sodium lights at an industrial complex; hard coal 3.1 GW sits adjacent as a smaller coal-fired power station with a tall chimney stack and conveyor belts, also illuminated by facility lighting; natural gas 3.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single polished exhaust stack and a faint heat shimmer, nestled between the coal plants; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a wood-chip gasification facility with a modest smokestack and stacked timber visible under floodlights; hydro 1.6 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir visible in a stream in the lower foreground, water catching faint reflections; solar 0.6 GW is shown only as a small array of dark crystalline PV panels on a barn roof, completely unlit and inert. The sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn, the very first pale band of cold steel-blue light appearing at the eastern horizon but no direct sun yet, stars still faintly visible overhead. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, reflecting elevated energy prices — low clouds loom at mid-altitude despite zero cloud cover at ground level, rendered as a psychological weight through dark tonal massing in the upper canvas. Summer vegetation is lush green but muted in the pre-dawn gloom, meadow grasses damp with dew. Temperature is cool at 12°C, suggested by a thin ground mist threading between the turbine bases. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — with rich chiaroscuro, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous contrast between warm sodium-lit industry and the cold blue infinity of pre-dawn sky. Meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack proportion. No text, no labels.