Strong onshore wind dominates pre-dawn generation at 83% renewables, with 4.1 GW net imports covering remaining demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 55%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 1%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 8%
83%
Renewable share
24.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.3 GW
Solar
36.2 GW
Total generation
4.1 GW
Net import
97.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.3°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
35.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
112
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 19.9 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 4.9 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the horizon above a dark North Sea sliver at the far right; biomass 3.7 GW occupies the lower-left foreground as a compact wood-chip power station with a tall stack emitting thin white vapour; natural gas 3.0 GW sits in the left-centre as two CCGT units with sleek exhaust stacks releasing small heat plumes; brown coal 2.9 GW fills the left side as two hyperbolic cooling towers with dense steam columns rising into the heavy sky; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir glinting faintly in the mid-ground valley; solar 0.3 GW is effectively absent — no panels visible. The time is 05:00 in early July: the sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn, with only the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon — no direct sunlight, no warm colours in the sky. The landscape is lush midsummer green with full deciduous canopy and tall grasses, temperature mild at 17°C. Cloud cover at 35% shows broken dark clouds overhead. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a brooding, dense quality to the air. Artificial sodium-orange lighting glows from the industrial facilities, the coal plant windows, and a few distant village streetlamps. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich dark palette of Prussian blue, raw umber, and muted olive greens, visible expressive brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, cooling tower geometry, and CCGT stacks. The scene conveys the sublime scale of industrial infrastructure against the sleeping natural landscape. No text, no labels.