Wind and fading solar dominate at 87% renewables, but 7 GW net imports fill the evening demand gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 30%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 8%
87%
Renewable share
17.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
12.0 GW
Solar
39.8 GW
Total generation
7.0 GW
Net import
144.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.1°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
31.0% / 63.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
94
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 14.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, their rotors turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 3.6 GW appears on the far right horizon as a cluster of turbines rising from a distant grey sea; solar 12.0 GW fills the centre-right as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels catching the last low-angle orange light; biomass 3.8 GW occupies the centre-left as a mid-sized plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest smokestack; brown coal 3.4 GW stands at the left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes; natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack, positioned just left of centre; hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley on the far left; hard coal 0.4 GW is a single small conventional stack barely visible behind the lignite plant. The sky is an 18:00 late-August dusk: the upper sky deepening from pale blue to dusky violet, the lower western horizon glowing orange-red with the setting sun, about 31% cloud cover with scattered altocumulus clouds lit gold and pink from below. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, hinting at high electricity prices — a warm haze settling across the landscape. Temperature is a mild 18°C; vegetation is full late-summer green with some early hints of drying grass. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic concrete shell. No text, no labels.