Wind onshore leads at 13.5 GW but pre-sunrise thermal reliance and 12.4 GW net imports drive prices to 172 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 4%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 17%
57%
Renewable share
15.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.5 GW
Solar
37.7 GW
Total generation
12.4 GW
Net import
172.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.6°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
300
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 13.5 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles receding across a gently rolling northern German plain; brown coal 6.5 GW occupies the far left as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes lit from below by amber sodium lights; natural gas 5.0 GW appears left of centre as a pair of compact combined-cycle gas turbine blocks with slender single exhaust stacks releasing thin grey plumes; hard coal 4.8 GW sits beside them as a darker, bulkier power station with conveyor belts and a single large chimney; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wooden-chip storage dome and a modest stack; wind offshore 1.8 GW is visible on the distant far-right horizon as a faint cluster of turbines above a sliver of dark sea; hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small concrete dam with white spillway water in a valley fold at centre-right; solar 1.5 GW is represented by a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground catching no direct light. The sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn with the faintest pale band of cold light along the eastern horizon — no direct sun, no warm colours in the sky. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, with a subtle industrial haze hanging low, reflecting the high electricity price. The temperature is cool at 10.6°C; late-summer vegetation — mature green wheat fields and linden trees — shows the faintest dew. Calm air, no visible wind motion in grass or flags despite turbine rotation in the north. Sodium-orange streetlights and facility floodlights illuminate the industrial structures against the dark landscape. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich, deep colour palette of navy, slate, amber, and charcoal, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant turbines, meticulous engineering detail on every technology. No text, no labels.