Wind leads at 14.3 GW but heavy cloud and high imports drive the price to 156 EUR/MWh at dawn.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 15%
Solar 5%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 19%
60%
Renewable share
14.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.7 GW
Solar
34.8 GW
Total generation
13.5 GW
Net import
156.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.8°C / 1 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
274
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.6 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky; wind onshore 9.0 GW spans the centre-right as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers receding across rolling green hills into misty distance, rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 5.3 GW appears in the far right background as a line of turbines on a grey horizon above a flat, pewter-coloured North Sea; natural gas 4.8 GW is rendered centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and a low heat-recovery building emitting thin exhaust plumes; biomass 3.8 GW sits in the mid-ground as a wood-chip-fed power station with a squat chimney and stacked timber in its yard; hard coal 2.4 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with conveyor belts and a single tall smokestack beside a dark coal heap; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a modest dam and spillway nestled in a wooded valley in the far background; solar 1.7 GW is a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels at far right catching no direct light, their surfaces dull grey under the clouds. Time of day is 06:00 dawn in August — the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, pre-dawn twilight only. The sky is entirely overcast with heavy low stratus clouds pressing down oppressively, conveying high electricity prices and tight supply. Temperature is mild at nearly 20°C so vegetation is lush, full summer green — dense deciduous canopy, meadow grasses, wildflowers. The air is utterly still with no leaf movement. High-voltage transmission pylons stride across the middle distance carrying heavy cables toward the viewer, symbolising imports. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, moody colour palette of slate greys, muted greens, and warm industrial ochres; visible impasto brushwork; deep atmospheric perspective with layered fog and haze; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib, and power-line insulator. The overall mood is heavy, industrious, quietly tense. No text, no labels.