Strong overnight wind supplies most generation, but 8.7 GW net imports are needed to meet 43.3 GW demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 46%
Wind offshore 16%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
77%
Renewable share
21.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
34.6 GW
Total generation
8.7 GW
Net import
122.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.7°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
59.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
151
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.9 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills into the distance, rotors visibly spinning; wind offshore 5.4 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark river or estuary; brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with pale steam plumes rising into the night sky, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting; natural gas 3.7 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip conveyor and modest chimney with a faint warm glow, positioned between the gas plant and the wind turbines; hard coal 1.0 GW is a smaller stack and bunker structure beside the brown coal towers; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small illuminated dam spillway in the middle distance. The scene is set at midnight in July — the sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight glow whatsoever, stars mostly obscured by 59% cloud cover rendered as heavy mid-level clouds. The warm 18.7°C summer night shows lush green vegetation faintly visible under artificial light — full-leafed deciduous trees, tall grass. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: humid summer haze hangs in the air, sodium streetlights cast amber pools along a road in the foreground, and the cooling tower steam catches the orange industrial glow. Wind at 14.1 km/h animates the turbine blades and bends the grass slightly. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich — rich, deep colour palette of indigo, amber, slate grey, and warm ochre; visible impasto brushwork; dramatic chiaroscuro between the dark landscape and the industrial light sources; atmospheric depth with haze layers receding toward the horizon; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.