Overcast skies and light winds force heavy thermal dispatch and ~22 GW net imports at elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 23%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 17%
54%
Renewable share
5.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.3 GW
Solar
35.8 GW
Total generation
22.2 GW
Net import
185.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.0°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
313
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 8.3 GW appears in the right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces dull and lightless under thick cloud; brown coal 5.9 GW dominates the left background as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast; natural gas 6.4 GW occupies the centre-left as a cluster of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.3 GW sits behind the gas plant as a blocky power station with a large smokestack and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; wind onshore 4.7 GW spans the centre-right as a line of widely spaced three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning slowly in gentle breeze; wind offshore 0.8 GW is suggested by tiny turbines on the far-right horizon above a faint grey sea; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-clad generating facility with a modest stack and woodchip storage yard in the right middle-ground; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and penstock visible in a wooded valley at the far left edge. The sky is entirely covered by a low, heavy, uniform blanket of grey stratus cloud — no blue, no sun, 100% overcast — casting flat diffuse daylight typical of 08:00 on an overcast summer morning. The atmosphere feels oppressive and weighty, echoing the high electricity price. Vegetation is lush mid-summer green but unusually dark under the dull light, with temperature at a cool 12°C suggested by dew on grass and figures in light jackets. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, moody colour palette of greys, slate blues, olive greens, and industrial ochres, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective deepening into misty distance, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, panel frame, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.