Wind leads at 17 GW but 19 GW net imports needed as hot evening demand outpaces domestic supply.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 15%
Solar 3%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 17%
64%
Renewable share
17.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.2 GW
Solar
36.5 GW
Total generation
19.0 GW
Net import
200.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
30.3°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 13.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
258
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 11.6 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, their rotors turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 5.4 GW appears in the far-right background as a distant cluster of turbines standing in a dark sea barely visible on the horizon. Brown coal 6.3 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, glowing faintly from internal orange furnace light. Natural gas 3.8 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin plumes, lit by banks of sodium vapour industrial lamps. Hard coal 3.2 GW appears behind the gas plant as a smaller power station with a visible coal conveyor and a single square cooling tower. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest smokestack, positioned centre-right among the wind turbines. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small dam structure with spillway in the far centre background nestled in a valley. Solar 1.2 GW is represented by a small array of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground, completely dark and inactive, reflecting only artificial light. Time is 20:00 in August — the sky is fully dark, deep navy-black, no twilight glow, no visible sunset; thick 100% cloud cover conceals all stars. The air feels heavy, oppressive, and humid at 30.3°C — heat haze rises from warm ground, vegetation is lush dark-green summer foliage barely visible in darkness. Sodium-orange streetlights line a road in the foreground, casting pools of amber on the pavement. The overall atmosphere is tense and brooding, the industrial facilities blazing with artificial light against total darkness, conveying high energy prices and strained supply. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich, moody colour palette of deep indigo, burnt orange, and coal-grey; thick visible brushwork; atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro lighting reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich's nocturnes crossed with Adolph Menzel's industrial realism. Meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.