Strong wind and brown coal anchor a cloudy dawn as net imports cover a 9.4 GW shortfall at elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 8%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 18%
70%
Renewable share
21.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.2 GW
Solar
42.7 GW
Total generation
9.4 GW
Net import
130.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.3°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
220
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.6 GW dominates the right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, their rotors spinning in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.0 GW appears as a cluster of turbines on the distant horizon over a grey sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain; brown coal 7.5 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall chimney and stacked timber in the left-centre middle ground; solar 3.2 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre foreground, their surfaces dark and reflecting only grey sky, producing almost nothing; natural gas 3.0 GW is a compact CCGT facility with two sleek exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling tower placed to the right of the coal station; hard coal 2.4 GW is a smaller traditional coal plant with a pair of rectangular chimneys and conveyor belts near the left edge; hydro 1.2 GW is a concrete dam with a thin waterfall visible in a distant valley at the far right. The sky is entirely overcast with heavy, low stratocumulus clouds in oppressive tones of slate grey and pewter, pressing down on the landscape — no sun visible, no breaks in the cloud. The lighting is pre-dawn: a faint cold blue-grey luminance on the eastern horizon, deep indigo remnants above, no direct sunlight, the scene lit diffusely from below the cloud deck. July vegetation is lush — full green canopies on deciduous trees, tall grasses, wildflowers — but muted under the flat light. The atmosphere feels heavy and pressurised, matching the high electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every facility. No text, no labels.