Strong wind dominates but full overcast and fading solar force net imports of 6.1 GW at elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 49%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 13%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
82%
Renewable share
31.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
6.7 GW
Solar
53.2 GW
Total generation
6.2 GW
Net import
117.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.9°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 58.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
124
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 26.3 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills from centre to far right, their rotors visibly spinning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 5.1 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the hazy horizon at far right. Solar 6.7 GW is rendered as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre-left foreground, their surfaces dull and unreflective under thick overcast. Brown coal 4.8 GW occupies the left background as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge with the oppressive cloud ceiling. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a squat industrial plant with a wood-chip storage yard and a single smokestack with thin exhaust, positioned left of centre. Natural gas 3.8 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a clean exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, placed between the biomass plant and the cooling towers. Hydro 1.4 GW is shown as a small concrete dam with cascading water in the lower left foreground. Hard coal 1.0 GW appears as a small dark power station with a single stack and thin smoke trail at the far left edge. The sky is entirely overcast with heavy, layered grey clouds pressing down oppressively, reflecting the high electricity price. The time is 19:00 in early July — late dusk with a dim orange-red glow on the lower western horizon at far left, the sky above deepening to dark grey-blue, light fading rapidly. Lush midsummer vegetation — full green deciduous trees, tall grasses, wildflowers — covers the terrain at 23.9°C warmth. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, and brooding. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich colour palette of deep greens, steel greys, warm amber at the horizon, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant turbines. Meticulous engineering detail on all infrastructure: turbine nacelles, blade pitch mechanisms, panel racking, cooling tower concrete texture, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels, no people.