Strong wind and fading solar lead generation at 83% renewables, but 8.1 GW net imports fill the evening gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 29%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
83%
Renewable share
22.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.7 GW
Solar
50.6 GW
Total generation
8.1 GW
Net import
137.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.0°C / 30 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
37.0% / 317.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
119
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 19.5 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills from the centre to the right, their rotors spinning briskly in strong wind; wind offshore 3.0 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller monopile turbines on the hazy horizon over a sliver of grey-blue sea at far right. Solar 14.7 GW fills the middle-left foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled westward, catching low golden light. Brown coal 4.5 GW occupies the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, with conveyor belts carrying dark lignite visible at their base. Biomass 3.7 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a tall rectangular stack and woodchip storage silos in the left-centre middle ground. Natural gas 2.5 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single sleek exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, tucked between the biomass plant and the coal complex. Hard coal 1.5 GW is a smaller conventional boiler plant with a single cylindrical chimney and a dark coal pile, partially obscured behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with white water cascading, visible in the lower-left corner beside a tree-lined riverbank. The lighting is late dusk at 18:00 in August Berlin time: the sun is low in the west, casting long amber-orange rays across the landscape with a warm golden-hour glow; the sky above transitions from pale warm blue near the horizon to a deeper blue overhead, with 37% cloud cover rendered as scattered altocumulus clouds lit from below in pink and copper tones. The air feels heavy and oppressive, slightly hazy, reflecting the high electricity price — a faint thermal shimmer rises from the coal towers. Vegetation is lush high-summer green, with tall grasses bending visibly in the 30 km/h wind. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.