Wind leads generation at 14.3 GW but 15.6 GW net imports are needed to meet 46.9 GW evening demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 1%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 21%
63%
Renewable share
14.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.2 GW
Solar
31.3 GW
Total generation
15.5 GW
Net import
185.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.7°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
22.0% / 28.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
272
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 11.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of large three-blade turbines on lattice towers arrayed across rolling hills, rotors turning steadily; wind offshore 3.3 GW appears in the far background right as a cluster of turbines on a dark sea horizon, tiny red aviation lights blinking; brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; biomass 4.2 GW sits center-left as a mid-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a single broad smokestack and conveyor belt, warmly lit; hard coal 2.6 GW appears behind the biomass plant as a coal-fired station with twin rectangular stacks and coal bunkers; natural gas 2.4 GW is rendered center as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and enclosed turbine hall, lit by white security floodlights; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway in the left foreground, water gleaming under lamplight. The sky is completely dark — deep navy-black, no twilight glow, no sunset remnant — it is full night at 20:00 in late August. Stars are faintly visible through 22 percent cloud cover, with thin wispy clouds drifting. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: a dense humid haze hangs low, amplifying the orange-sodium glow from industrial facilities into an uncomfortable glare against the darkness. Temperature is mild at 16.7°C; late-summer vegetation — green deciduous trees and tall grass — is rendered in dark silhouette. The landscape is a broad German lowland panorama. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich, deep colors, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between industrial light and surrounding darkness — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and smokestack detail. No text, no labels.