Strong onshore wind and residual solar drive 77.6% renewables at evening peak, with brown coal providing persistent baseload.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 29%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 12%
78%
Renewable share
24.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.7 GW
Solar
61.3 GW
Total generation
+4.1 GW
Net export
104.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.1°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
87.0% / 269.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
160
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 21.9 GW dominates the right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, their rotors visibly spinning in moderate wind. Solar 17.7 GW fills the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled toward the obscured sun, still catching diffused light. Brown coal 7.3 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into overcast sky, beside a sprawling lignite power station with conveyor belts and coal bunkers. Natural gas 3.8 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 2.7 GW sits adjacent to the lignite plant as a smaller conventional station with a single rectangular chimney and coal stockpile. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad biomass CHP facility with a short stack and woodchip storage near the centre. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with spillway in the lower left beside a river. Wind offshore 2.7 GW is glimpsed on the far horizon as a row of turbines standing in a sliver of grey sea. The sky is dusk at 18:00 in July — the sun is still above the horizon but heavily veiled by 87% cloud cover, casting a warm but diffused amber-orange glow along the lower western sky while the upper sky transitions to muted steel-blue and grey. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — humid summer air pressing down, clouds thick and layered. Temperature is 22°C: lush green vegetation, full summer foliage on scattered deciduous trees, tall grass swaying in the 21 km/h breeze. Style: 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 and chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the brooding overcast sky. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and rotor hubs, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic profiles, conveyor infrastructure. No text, no labels.