Wind dominates at 23 GW but 5.2 GW net imports fill the evening gap as solar fades.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 41%
Wind offshore 16%
Solar 0%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 13%
71%
Renewable share
23.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.2 GW
Solar
40.7 GW
Total generation
5.2 GW
Net import
164.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.7°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
89.0% / 29.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
201
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.6 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling hills into the distance, rotors spinning visibly in moderate wind; wind offshore 6.4 GW appears in the far background right as a cluster of offshore turbines on the dark horizon line above a barely visible sea; brown coal 5.2 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; natural gas 4.2 GW sits center-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by facility floodlights; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a cylindrical silo and low stack with warm amber glow, positioned center; hard coal 2.5 GW shows as a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular cooling tower and conveyor belt structure, left of center; hydro 1.5 GW is a concrete dam spillway visible in a valley gap at far left; solar 0.2 GW is essentially absent — no panels visible. The sky is completely dark, a deep navy-black August night at 20:00, no twilight, no sky glow, 89% cloud cover rendered as heavy invisible overcast blocking all stars. The atmosphere is oppressive and heavy, reflecting the high electricity price. The landscape is late-summer central German terrain with dark green deciduous trees and harvested fields, temperature mild at 17.7°C. All illumination comes from artificial sources: sodium streetlights casting amber pools along a road, white-blue industrial floodlights on the power plants, red aviation warning lights blinking atop turbine nacelles and stacks. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, deep colors, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric chiaroscuro depth — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust stack, and industrial detail. No text, no labels.