Wind power leads at 31.3 GW with 22.5 GW solar, driving 7.7 GW net exports under overcast summer skies.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 33%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 5%
87%
Renewable share
31.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.5 GW
Solar
68.4 GW
Total generation
+7.8 GW
Net export
63.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.9°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
73.0% / 123.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
92
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 26.3 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green summer hills into atmospheric haze; wind offshore 5.0 GW appears on the far-right horizon as a line of turbines standing in a grey-blue North Sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain. Solar 22.5 GW fills the middle foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled south, their glass surfaces reflecting a diffuse, overcast sky with no direct sunbeams. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-ground cluster of small industrial plants with wood-chip silos and modest exhaust stacks emitting thin white vapour. Brown coal 3.2 GW occupies the far left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white steam plumes rising into the clouds. Hard coal 3.0 GW sits just right of the lignite plant as a smaller power station with a tall rectangular chimney and coal conveyor belts. Natural gas 2.9 GW appears as a compact modern CCGT facility with a single gleaming exhaust stack and minimal emissions, placed between the coal plants and the solar fields. Hydro 1.6 GW is suggested by a small river with a weir and low-head turbine house in the lower-left foreground. The lighting is full summer daytime at 08:00 — sun already well above the horizon but largely concealed behind 73% cloud cover, creating bright but flat, diffuse illumination with soft shadows; the sky is layered grey-white cumulus with occasional blue patches. Temperature is a cool 14.9°C July morning — lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, meadow grasses slightly damp. The atmosphere carries a faintly heavy, humid quality reflecting a 63 EUR/MWh price — not oppressive but weighty, with clouds pressing gently down. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated greens and steel-greys, visible impasto brushwork in the clouds and steam plumes, atmospheric aerial perspective fading the distant turbines into mist, meticulous engineering accuracy in every nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.