Strong onshore wind leads generation but 9.4 GW net imports needed as evening demand peaks under overcast skies.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 50%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 4%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 11%
76%
Renewable share
29.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.0 GW
Solar
48.3 GW
Total generation
9.4 GW
Net import
138.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.2°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
96.0% / 36.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
159
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 24.2 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills into the distance, rotors turning steadily; brown coal 5.5 GW occupies the far left as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes against the dark sky; natural gas 4.7 GW appears as two compact CCGT power blocks with slender exhaust stacks and heat-shimmer, positioned left-centre; wind offshore 5.1 GW is visible on the distant horizon as a line of turbines emerging from a dark sea; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial plant with a timber-pile yard and a single broad smokestack, centre-left; solar 2.0 GW appears as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dark and unreflective under thick clouds; hydro 1.4 GW is a modest dam structure with white water cascading, tucked into a valley at centre-right; hard coal 1.2 GW is a single smaller conventional power station with a brick chimney behind the gas plant. The sky is completely dark — a deep navy-to-black summer night sky at 20:00 in July, no twilight glow, no sunset colours remaining; the atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, and humid under 96% cloud cover at 23°C. All structures are lit by warm sodium-orange industrial lighting, glowing windows, and red aviation warning lights atop turbine nacelles and smokestacks. The landscape is lush midsummer — deep green deciduous trees in full leaf, tall grasses. Transmission pylons with high-voltage lines cross the middle distance, symbolising interconnection. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric chiaroscuro depth, dramatic contrast between the warm industrial glow and the oppressive dark overcast sky — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for each technology. No text, no labels.