Wind leads at 16.6 GW combined, but 7.8 GW net imports are needed as solar ramps slowly at dawn.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 11%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 15%
73%
Renewable share
16.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.0 GW
Solar
35.5 GW
Total generation
7.8 GW
Net import
92.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.5°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
42.0% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
195
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.8 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green summer hills into the distance; brown coal 5.4 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes, with conveyor belts of dark lignite visible below; solar 4.0 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre-left foreground, their surfaces reflecting only muted grey sky; wind offshore 3.8 GW is rendered as a line of turbines on the far-right horizon standing in a faintly visible sea; biomass 3.9 GW shows as a mid-ground industrial biogas facility with cylindrical digesters and a thin exhaust stack; natural gas 2.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and low-profile turbine hall beside the cooling towers; hard coal 1.7 GW is a smaller power station with a conventional smokestack and coal yard near the lignite complex; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir tucked into a valley in the far centre background. The sky is early dawn at 06:00 in July—pale pre-dawn light spreading from the eastern horizon in bands of cool peach and steel blue, the upper sky still deep blue-grey, no direct sunlight yet, 42% cloud cover rendered as scattered altocumulus catching faint colour underneath. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, with a humid haze hanging low over the industrial structures, reflecting the elevated electricity price. Vegetation is lush midsummer green but subdued in the dim light, temperature around 10.5°C suggested by a thin ground mist drifting through the turbine bases and across the solar field. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective—yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: lattice tower cross-members, turbine blade pitch mechanisms, panel wiring, cooling tower ribbing. No text, no labels.