Coal and gas dominate domestic supply as weak wind and negligible solar force 17.5 GW of net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 2%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 20%
46%
Renewable share
9.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.6 GW
Solar
32.0 GW
Total generation
17.5 GW
Net import
182.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.8°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
86.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
368
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into heavy overcast; hard coal 4.6 GW sits just left of centre as a dark-brick power station with twin chimneys trailing smoke; natural gas 6.1 GW fills the centre as two compact CCGT units with slender single exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour; wind onshore 8.4 GW spans the right third as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers, blades barely turning in near-calm air; biomass 3.7 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a domed wood-chip silo and a modest smokestack in the centre-right; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and spillway in the right foreground with a glinting river; wind offshore 0.8 GW is faintly visible on the far-right horizon as tiny turbine silhouettes above a grey sea line; solar 0.6 GW appears as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the immediate foreground, their surfaces dark and unreflective under heavy cloud. The sky is pre-dawn August at 06:00 in central Germany: deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm colours — only cold diffuse light. Cloud cover is dense and low, pressing down oppressively to convey the high electricity price. The landscape is flat northern German terrain, summer-green fields and scattered birch trees with full foliage, dew on grass, muted greens in the dim light. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, sombre colour palette of slate blues, moss greens, warm industrial ochres, and chimney greys; visible impasto brushwork; deep atmospheric perspective with haze between the power stations and the distant turbines. Meticulous engineering accuracy on every technology: three-blade rotor geometry, nacelle housings, hyperbolic concrete shell profiles, CCGT heat-recovery housings. The mood is solemn industrial grandeur at daybreak. No text, no labels.