Strong onshore wind dominates at 24.7 GW but fading solar and 55.3 GW demand require thermal backup and 7.1 GW net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 51%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 6%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 9%
79%
Renewable share
29.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.9 GW
Solar
48.2 GW
Total generation
7.1 GW
Net import
124.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.5°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
34.0% / 120.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
148
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 24.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade wind turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green hills into the distance, blades spinning in moderate wind; brown coal 4.3 GW occupies the far left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, with conveyor belts feeding lignite into a sprawling power station; natural gas 3.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a tall slender exhaust stack and a smaller heat recovery unit, positioned left of centre with a faint orange flare; hard coal 2.9 GW is rendered as a blocky red-brick power station with twin chimneys and a coal stockpile beside it, adjacent to the lignite plant; solar 2.9 GW shown as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground catching the last feeble light; biomass 4.2 GW depicted as a timber-clad biomass plant with a rounded silo and low smokestack emitting pale exhaust, nestled among trees centre-left; hydro 1.6 GW as a small dam and penstock visible in a valley in the background; wind offshore 4.6 GW suggested by a distant line of offshore turbines on a dark sea glimpsed at the far right horizon. TIME AND LIGHTING: 20:00 in July, dusk is essentially over — the sky is deep navy-blue fading to near-black at zenith, with only the faintest residual amber glow clinging to the western horizon; the landscape is lit primarily by sodium-orange streetlights along a road in the foreground, warm yellow windows of industrial buildings, and blinking red aviation warning lights atop the wind turbines and cooling towers. The atmosphere is heavy and somewhat oppressive, with scattered low clouds reflecting the industrial glow, conveying the tension of a 124 EUR/MWh price environment. Lush midsummer vegetation — full-leafed oaks and linden trees, tall meadow grass — sways gently in moderate breeze. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colours, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric aerial perspective — combined with meticulous technical accuracy for every energy installation. The composition evokes the sublime tension between industrial modernity and the natural world at nightfall. No text, no labels, no human figures.