Wind leads at 16 GW but overcast skies and absent solar force gas and coal dispatch, driving prices to 185 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 1%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 13%
58%
Renewable share
16.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.4 GW
Solar
37.4 GW
Total generation
12.9 GW
Net import
184.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.1°C / 15 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
273
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 13.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors spinning visibly in moderate wind. Wind offshore 3.1 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of turbines rising from a grey sea on the horizon. Brown coal 5.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the heavy sky. Natural gas 7.4 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT plants with slim exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer and pale exhaust. Hard coal 3.3 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller coal station with a single large smokestack and coal conveyors. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a modest wood-clad industrial facility with a short stack and thin wisp of smoke, positioned in the centre. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small concrete dam with water cascading, nestled in a valley at the far left edge. Solar 0.4 GW: no panels visible, no sunshine. The sky is 100% overcast, an unbroken ceiling of heavy grey-white stratus pressing down oppressively, conveying the high electricity price. The time is 06:00 in August—pre-dawn light only: a pale blue-grey luminosity seeps from the eastern horizon but no sun disk is visible, the landscape lit in cold diffuse half-light. The temperature is a cool 16°C; summer vegetation is lush green but subdued under the gloom. Dew glistens on grass. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, and oppressive. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich deep colour palette of slate greys, steel blues, and muted greens, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with mist hanging in the valleys, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.