Strong wind and persistent brown coal anchor overnight supply as overcast skies suppress solar and elevate prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 50%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 1%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 16%
74%
Renewable share
28.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.3 GW
Solar
46.1 GW
Total generation
1.3 GW
Net import
102.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.2°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
90.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
190
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 23.1 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade wind turbines with white lattice towers receding across rolling green hills into deep atmospheric perspective; brown coal 7.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes rising into the heavy sky; wind offshore 5.4 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly visible North Sea coastline; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a timber-clad boiler house and a single square stack releasing thin grey exhaust; natural gas 3.2 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and horizontal heat-recovery unit just left of centre; hard coal 1.5 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single tall chimney and conveyor belt visible beside the lignite station; hydro 1.4 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with turbine house nestled in a wooded valley in the far left middle distance. Time is 05:00 pre-dawn: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence low on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm colours in the sky — overcast 90% cloud cover creates a thick blanket of stratus visible as textured grey layers. No solar panels anywhere — zero solar output. Lush midsummer vegetation: tall grass, full deciduous trees in dark green foliage, wildflowers barely visible. Moderate wind animates the turbine blades with slight motion blur and bends the grass. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — humid air, low dense clouds pressing down on the landscape. Sodium-orange industrial lighting illuminates the coal and gas facilities with warm artificial glow. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, Romantic atmospheric depth — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower fluting, CCGT exhaust geometry, and conveyor structure. No text, no labels, no human figures.