Strong onshore wind and residual solar drive 83% renewables with 3.9 GW net export under overcast skies.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 22%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 8%
83%
Renewable share
33.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.0 GW
Solar
62.8 GW
Total generation
+4.0 GW
Net export
108.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.0°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 76.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
115
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 27.7 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling green hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the hazy horizon line above a grey sea inlet at far right; solar 14.0 GW is rendered as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on gentle slopes in the centre-left foreground, their surfaces reflecting only diffuse grey light under total overcast; brown coal 5.2 GW occupies the left portion as a lignite power station with two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes and a cluster of industrial buildings with conveyor belts feeding brown coal; natural gas 3.7 GW sits left-of-centre as a compact CCGT plant with a tall single exhaust stack releasing a thin heat shimmer; hard coal 1.6 GW is a smaller coal station behind the gas plant with a single squat cooling tower and coal bunker; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized plant with a wood-chip storage dome and modest smokestack near the centre; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir tucked into a valley at far left. The sky is entirely overcast with heavy, layered grey clouds pressing low — no blue sky visible — casting an oppressive, dense atmosphere consistent with a high electricity price. The lighting is dusk at 18:00 in July: a dim orange-red glow barely visible along the lower western horizon beneath the cloud deck, the sky above darkening to slate grey, diffuse warm light catching the cooling tower steam. Lush midsummer vegetation — deep green deciduous trees, tall grass, wildflowers — at 19°C. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, saturated colour, visible expressive brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth — with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid, every cooling tower's concrete hyperbolic curve. No text, no labels.