Strong onshore wind leads at 24 GW under heavy overcast; brown coal and gas fill residual load as Germany net-imports 2.8 GW.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 43%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 15%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 12%
79%
Renewable share
29.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.4 GW
Solar
55.2 GW
Total generation
2.8 GW
Net import
118.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.1°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
88.0% / 3.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
149
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 stretching across rolling green hills into the misty distance; wind offshore 5.8 GW appears at the far right horizon as a cluster of turbines rising from a grey North Sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain. Brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, beside a sprawling lignite power station with conveyors and coal bunkers. Solar 8.4 GW is rendered as a mid-ground field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels reflecting only diffuse grey light, their surfaces dull under heavy cloud. Natural gas 3.8 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with slim vertical exhaust stacks producing thin heat shimmer. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a modest wood-clad industrial plant with a short smokestack and woodchip storage silos near the centre. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam and spillway nestled in a forested valley at the far left edge. Hard coal 1.2 GW is a single older brick-and-steel power station with a tall chimney just behind the brown coal complex. The sky is early dawn at 07:00 in July: pale blue-grey pre-dawn light seeping from the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight visible, 88% heavy stratiform cloud cover creating a low oppressive ceiling that presses down on the landscape, suggesting the elevated electricity price. Temperature 17°C: lush midsummer green foliage on deciduous trees, damp meadow grasses, morning dew. Wind at 12.9 km/h visibly moves turbine blades at moderate speed and bends tall grasses. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, moody. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, dramatic chiaroscuro between the pale horizon and dark cloud mass — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower rib, every PV cell grid line. No text, no labels.