Wind dominates at 17.5 GW but 7.6 GW net imports are needed as solar remains negligible before dawn.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 41%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 2%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 16%
70%
Renewable share
17.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.6 GW
Solar
33.2 GW
Total generation
7.6 GW
Net import
99.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.1°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
50.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
216
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 13.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling hills into the distance; wind offshore 3.8 GW appears as a line of turbines on the far horizon over a sliver of dark sea visible through a valley. Brown coal 5.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the heavy sky. Biomass 3.7 GW sits in the centre-left as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall stack and wood-chip storage silos, warm amber light visible through its windows. Natural gas 2.7 GW appears centre-right as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller heat-recovery unit with faint exhaust. Hard coal 1.9 GW is a smaller conventional plant behind the lignite station, with a single square cooling tower and coal conveyor. Hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a dam wall and spillway partially visible in a river gorge at the far left edge. Solar 0.6 GW is a small array of crystalline silicon panels on a barn roof in the mid-ground, barely visible, reflecting no light. The sky is pre-dawn deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm colours — only cold steel-blue tones. Cloud cover at 50 percent shows broken stratocumulus against the dark firmament. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a brooding, pressurised sky bearing down on the landscape. Temperature is cool at 11°C; summer vegetation is lush green but muted in the low light, with dew on grass. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous chiaroscuro — but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, cooling tower geometry, conveyor belt, and panel frame. No text, no labels.