Wind leads at 20.5 GW but high evening demand of 56.1 GW forces 14.7 GW net imports and elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 40%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 2%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 17%
64%
Renewable share
20.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.8 GW
Solar
41.4 GW
Total generation
14.7 GW
Net import
177.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.9°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
99.0% / 45.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
251
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.7 GW dominates the right two-fifths of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, blades visibly turning in moderate wind; brown coal 7.1 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, illuminated from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; natural gas 5.0 GW appears center-left as a compact CCGT facility with slender exhaust stacks and a single shorter cooling tower, lit by bright facility lighting; wind offshore 3.8 GW is suggested in the far background right as a line of turbines standing in a dark sea on the distant horizon, their aviation warning lights blinking red; hard coal 2.9 GW sits as a smaller coal plant with a single large smokestack adjacent to the lignite station; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial biogas facility with cylindrical digesters and a short flue, warmly lit; hydro 1.1 GW is a small dam structure barely visible in a valley in the mid-ground; solar 0.8 GW is negligible and absent from the scene. The sky is completely dark, a deep navy-black summer night at 20:00, with 99% cloud cover creating a low oppressive overcast ceiling that reflects the orange-amber glow of industrial sodium lights from below, giving the clouds a heavy sulphurous tinge. The atmosphere feels warm and humid at 23.9°C — lush dark-green summer foliage on deciduous trees, thick grass. The mood is tense and pressured, reflecting the 177 EUR/MWh price: the air feels thick, the cloud ceiling is low and claustrophobic. Distant transmission towers with glowing insulators recede into the murk, suggesting cross-border power flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the black sky and industrial glow, meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, cooling tower parabolic curves, and CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.