Coal, gas, and moderate wind supply 31.7 GW against 48.8 GW demand, driving 17.1 GW net imports at high prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 23%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 19%
43%
Renewable share
8.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
31.7 GW
Total generation
17.2 GW
Net import
199.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.1°C / 9 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
378
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 5.9 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the black night sky, their bases lit by amber sodium lights; hard coal 4.7 GW sits left-of-centre as a large coal plant with rectangular boiler houses, conveyor belts, and a tall chimney with blinking red aviation lights; natural gas 7.3 GW fills the centre as three compact CCGT units with sleek cylindrical exhaust stacks emitting thin grey plumes, their metal surfaces gleaming under halogen floodlights; wind onshore 6.6 GW spans the right-centre as a row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors turning slowly in light wind, nacelles faintly visible under distant facility lighting; wind offshore 1.7 GW appears as a small cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial building with a wood-chip silo and single smokestack emitting pale smoke, positioned between the coal and gas plants; hydro 1.3 GW is shown as a modest dam structure with illuminated spillway in the far right background. The sky is completely black with no twilight, no stars visible through 100% overcast — a heavy, oppressive dark cloud ceiling pressing low. The landscape is a gentle German lowland in late summer, with dark green deciduous trees barely visible in silhouette. The atmosphere is dense and heavy, reflecting the 199 EUR/MWh price tension. Industrial lights cast orange and white pools across the ground, reflecting off wet-looking surfaces. All rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth, but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.