Wind leads at 17.3 GW but full overcast and 9.8 GW net imports drive prices to 191 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 18%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 11%
66%
Renewable share
17.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.7 GW
Solar
47.7 GW
Total generation
9.8 GW
Net import
190.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.8°C / 16 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
221
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 13.8 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills into atmospheric distance, rotors spinning in moderate wind; wind offshore 3.5 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey North Sea sliver. Brown coal 5.2 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast, adjacent open-pit mine terraces visible. Natural gas 7.4 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and thin heat-shimmer exhaust. Hard coal 3.5 GW sits behind the gas plants as a single large coal-fired station with a rectangular boiler house, conveyor belts, and a coal stockpile. Solar 8.7 GW appears as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre-right middle ground, their surfaces dark and reflective under the grey sky, producing diffuse-light power but with no sunshine or shadows. Biomass 4.0 GW is a modest wood-chip facility with a small smokestack and timber yard at the left-centre edge. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small dam and reservoir nestled in a wooded valley in the far background. Time is 08:00 on a summer morning: full daylight but entirely diffuse — the sky is a uniform, heavy, oppressive blanket of 100% stratus cloud in shades of pewter and dull silver, no blue visible anywhere, no sun disc, no shadows on the ground. The atmosphere feels dense and weighty, hinting at the high electricity price. Vegetation is lush mid-August green — tall grasses, mature deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers. Temperature is mild at 17°C, slight moisture on surfaces. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic compositional depth from foreground coal infrastructure through mid-ground solar and gas to distant wind turbines vanishing into cloud. Meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV panel frame. No text, no labels, no people prominent.