Wind power at 30.8 GW leads a renewables-heavy morning grid balanced at 57.8 GW with modest thermal backup.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 21%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 6%
84%
Renewable share
30.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
11.9 GW
Solar
57.8 GW
Total generation
+0.0 GW
Net export
104.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.6°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
17.0% / 48.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
114
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 25.3 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green hills from the centre to the far right horizon; wind offshore 5.5 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines standing in a grey-blue North Sea visible through a gap in the hills at the far right; solar 11.9 GW fills the lower-right foreground as orderly rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels on a gentle south-facing slope catching the first low-angle morning light; brown coal 3.5 GW rises at the far left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with white steam plumes drifting eastward against the dawn sky; hard coal 3.0 GW sits just right of the brown coal as a smaller power station with a tall square chimney and conveyor belts feeding from a dark coal pile; natural gas 3.0 GW appears as a compact modern CCGT plant with a single polished exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer, positioned left of centre; biomass 4.0 GW is represented by a mid-sized plant with a broad low building, wood-chip storage dome, and a modest chimney with pale smoke, placed between the gas plant and the wind turbines; hydro 1.6 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a reservoir glinting faintly in the background valley. Time of day is dawn at 07:00 in early July: the sky is a graduated wash from deep steel-blue at the zenith to a pale apricot-gold band along the eastern horizon where the sun has not yet fully risen, casting long blue shadows across the landscape. The atmosphere feels slightly heavy and oppressive despite mostly clear skies, with a faint humid haze suggesting the elevated electricity price. Vegetation is lush midsummer green — tall grasses, wildflowers, deciduous trees in full leaf — but the air is cool at 12.6°C so there is a thin ground mist in the valleys. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, dramatic Romantic composition — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine blade, every panel frame, every cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.