Strong onshore wind leads generation under full overcast; brown coal and gas cover the gap as net imports supply 3.3 GW.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 48%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 6%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 14%
76%
Renewable share
29.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.9 GW
Solar
49.8 GW
Total generation
3.3 GW
Net import
115.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.8°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
99.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
173
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 24.0 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green summer fields into the misty distance; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines visible on a grey North Sea horizon at far right. Brown coal 7.2 GW occupies the left foreground as a lignite power station with three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast. Natural gas 3.4 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and low rectangular turbine halls. Biomass 3.9 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a squat cylindrical silo and a gently smoking stack just behind the gas plant. Solar 2.9 GW is represented by a small array of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dull and reflecting only grey sky, clearly producing minimal output. Hard coal 1.4 GW is a single older brick-chimney power station partially visible behind the lignite complex. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse beside a dark river in the lower foreground. The sky is entirely overcast at 99% cloud cover — a uniform ceiling of heavy grey-white stratus pressing low, creating an oppressive, heavy atmosphere reflecting the 115.6 EUR/MWh price. The lighting is early dawn at 06:00 in July: a pale blue-grey pre-dawn glow diffusing through the clouds from the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, everything lit in cool muted tones. The landscape is lush midsummer green — tall grasses, full deciduous trees — with a light breeze visible in the motion of grass and turbine blades. Style: a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with misty recession, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and panel frame. No text, no labels.