Wind leads at 19.6 GW but full overcast and early hour limit solar, driving coal and gas dispatch and net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 5%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 19%
62%
Renewable share
19.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.3 GW
Solar
43.7 GW
Total generation
7.3 GW
Net import
159.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.7°C / 12 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
278
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 14.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills into atmospheric haze; wind offshore 4.9 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of turbines on a grey North Sea horizon. Brown coal 8.3 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast, flanked by lignite conveyor belts and open-pit mine terracing. Hard coal 4.5 GW sits left of centre as a coal-fired power station with tall rectangular boiler house and twin chimney stacks trailing dark smoke. Natural gas 4.0 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with a single sleek exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered centre-right as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wooden chip storage dome and a modest smokestack. Hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small concrete weir and run-of-river powerhouse nestled beside a stream in the middle distance. Solar 2.3 GW is shown as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre foreground, their surfaces dull and reflecting only grey sky, producing minimal output. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, rendered as a heavy oppressive blanket of stratiform clouds pressing down — no blue sky visible. The lighting is pre-dawn at 06:00 Berlin time: a faint cold blue-grey luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, the landscape lit in muted blue-grey tones with warm sodium-orange glows from the industrial facilities. Temperature is 12.7°C in midsummer, so vegetation is full and lush but dew-laden. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high 159.2 EUR/MWh price — a brooding, weighty industrial morning. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and Romantic grandeur, but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and panel frame. No text, no labels.