Wind leads at 20.8 GW combined but dense overcast and weak solar drive 10.1 GW net imports and elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 40%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 7%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 18%
68%
Renewable share
20.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.9 GW
Solar
42.1 GW
Total generation
10.1 GW
Net import
149.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.0°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
91.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
233
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills into the misty distance; brown coal 7.4 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky; wind offshore 3.9 GW appears as a line of turbines on a grey North Sea horizon visible through a gap between hills; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a tall stack and wood-chip storage silos; hard coal 3.2 GW sits adjacent to the brown coal plant as a smaller power station with a conveyor belt and dark coal pile; solar 2.9 GW is a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground, their surfaces dull and unreflective under the thick clouds; natural gas 2.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a single clean exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway in a wooded valley at the far right. The sky is pre-dawn deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon — no direct sun visible, no warm colours in the sky, only cold diffuse light beginning to separate land from cloud. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — low clouds press down on the landscape, moisture hangs in the air, and the cooling tower plumes flatten and spread laterally. Temperature is a cool 12°C in midsummer, so the vegetation is lush and deeply green but glistening with morning dew and mist. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich tonal depth, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with misty layers receding into distance, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the dark pre-dawn sky. Each energy technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.