Wind and brown coal lead domestic generation while 15.4 GW net imports cover a summer evening supply gap at high prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 13%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 21%
55%
Renewable share
10.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
29.2 GW
Total generation
15.4 GW
Net import
165.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.2°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
311
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.2 GW occupies the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the dark sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps at their bases; wind onshore 6.9 GW fills the centre-right as a long row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling fields, their rotors turning very slowly in near-calm air, with red aviation warning lights blinking on each nacelle; wind offshore 3.9 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of turbines standing in a dark sea glimpsed between hills; natural gas 4.4 GW is rendered centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with single tall exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, brightly lit by industrial floodlights; hard coal 2.5 GW sits adjacent to the brown coal as a smaller conventional power station with a single smokestack and conveyor belt structures, also floodlit; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a medium-sized industrial facility with a rounded dome digester and a squat chimney with a faint warm glow, positioned between the gas plant and the wind turbines; hydro 1.1 GW is a small dam structure with spillway visible in the middle distance, lit by a few white security lights. The sky is completely dark — deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow — with a scattering of stars visible where steam plumes do not obscure them. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: a slight haze hangs over the landscape, the air thick and warm at 22°C with lush green summer vegetation in the foreground dimly visible under amber streetlight spill. The ground is flat central German terrain with patches of crops and grass. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, dark palette with deep umbers and Prussian blues, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric chiaroscuro — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.