Wind leads at 16.5 GW but dense overcloud and 17.1 GW net imports define a tight Monday morning.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 19%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 14%
73%
Renewable share
16.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.9 GW
Solar
40.6 GW
Total generation
17.1 GW
Net import
139.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.4°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
96.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
196
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 11.1 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green summer hills; wind offshore 5.4 GW appears in the far background as a line of taller turbines rising from a grey North Sea horizon; solar 7.9 GW occupies the centre-right as broad fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels angled on metal racks, their surfaces reflecting only the dull grey sky with no sunlight; brown coal 5.8 GW fills the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes from a sprawling lignite plant with conveyor belts and ash-grey spoil heaps; hard coal 2.6 GW sits adjacent as a smaller coal plant with rectangular mechanical-draft cooling towers and a tall brick chimney; natural gas 2.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single gleaming exhaust stack and modest heat-recovery steam generator; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized industrial buildings with wood-chip silos and short stacks emitting thin white vapour in the centre-left; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam and penstock visible in a wooded valley at the far left. The sky is an oppressive, heavy blanket of 96% stratiform cloud in tones of slate grey and charcoal, pressing low over the landscape, creating a suffocating atmospheric weight reflecting the 139.6 EUR/MWh price. The time is early morning dawn at 07:00 in July — a pale, diffuse pre-dawn greyish light filters through the thick clouds, no direct sunlight visible, the east horizon shows only the faintest warm grey glow beneath the cloud deck. The landscape is lush midsummer green — tall grasses, deciduous trees in full leaf — at 15.4°C with a moderate breeze bending the grass. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich colour, visible textured brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic tonal contrasts between the dark industrial foreground and the luminous grey distance, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine blade, every cooling tower curve, every panel frame. No text, no labels.