Coal and gas dominate scarce domestic output as calm, overcast dawn forces 25.8 GW of net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 2%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 25%
Hard coal 18%
Brown coal 22%
34%
Renewable share
3.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.6 GW
Solar
26.0 GW
Total generation
25.8 GW
Net import
197.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.3°C / 2 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
442
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 5.8 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; hard coal 4.8 GW sits just right of centre as a block power plant with tall rectangular chimneys and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; natural gas 6.5 GW fills the centre-right as a pair of modern combined-cycle gas turbine facilities with slim cylindrical exhaust stacks and visible heat-shimmer; biomass 3.7 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip-fed plant with a conical fuel silo and modest smokestack in the middle distance; wind onshore 2.7 GW is visible as a sparse cluster of three-blade turbines on a low ridge in the right background, rotors barely turning in still air; wind offshore 0.9 GW is hinted by distant turbines on a grey horizon line; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a wooded valley at far left; solar 0.6 GW is a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground, reflecting only dull grey light. Time of day is dawn at 06:00 in August: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm tones yet. The sky is completely overcast with a low, heavy, unbroken blanket of stratus clouds pressing down oppressively, conveying the tension of a 197 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is mild at 14°C; vegetation is full summer green — mature deciduous trees, tall grass, wildflowers — but muted and shadowless under the flat dawn light. The air is perfectly still, no motion in leaves or flags. An extensive high-voltage transmission corridor of lattice pylons and heavy cables stretches from the right edge toward the eastern horizon, symbolising the enormous import flow. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, layered colour with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth through subtle gradations of grey-blue mist between foreground industrial detail and distant ridgelines — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and transmission insulator. The mood is sombre, weighty, and monumental. No text, no labels.