Brown coal, onshore wind, and gas anchor a 37.7 GW domestic supply requiring 14.2 GW net imports under heavy overcast.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 7%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 24%
48%
Renewable share
10.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.6 GW
Solar
37.7 GW
Total generation
14.2 GW
Net import
168.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.8°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
94.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
368
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.2 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky, surrounded by conveyor belts and open-pit mine edges; onshore wind 8.7 GW fills the centre-right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers dotting rolling green summer hills, blades turning slowly; natural gas 5.7 GW appears as two compact CCGT plants with slim exhaust stacks and modest heat shimmer in the centre-left; hard coal 4.7 GW is rendered as a traditional coal plant with a tall chimney stack and rectangular boiler house emitting a thin grey plume, positioned between the lignite complex and the gas units; biomass 3.9 GW sits in the mid-ground as a cluster of smaller industrial buildings with wood-chip storage domes and short stacks with faint wisps; solar 2.6 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground right, their surfaces dull and unreflective under the thick clouds; hydro 1.0 GW is a small concrete dam with a narrow waterfall visible in a valley in the far right background; offshore wind 1.9 GW is suggested by a distant row of turbines on the far horizon where a sliver of grey sea is visible. The sky is a deep blue-grey pre-dawn palette at 06:00, with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon but no direct sunlight, 94% cloud cover forming a heavy unbroken ceiling of stratiform clouds pressing low. The atmosphere feels oppressive and weighty, reflecting the high electricity price — humid, dense air with muted colours. Summer vegetation is lush dark green but subdued by the dim light. Temperature around 13°C gives a cool misty quality with ground-level haze threading between the turbine bases. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric grandeur meets industrial realism — with rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and panel frame, dramatic atmospheric depth receding into fog. No text, no labels.