Wind leads at 12.7 GW but 12 GW net imports needed as coal and gas fill the nighttime solar gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 8%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 22%
57%
Renewable share
12.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
31.7 GW
Total generation
12.0 GW
Net import
172.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.7°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
311
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 10.1 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers spread across rolling dark hills, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 2.6 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea glimpsed between hills. Brown coal 6.9 GW fills the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium lamps of a sprawling lignite power station. Hard coal 3.3 GW sits left of centre as a smaller coal plant with a single tall chimney stack and conveyor belts, glowing under industrial floodlights. Natural gas 3.5 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with slender exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer. Biomass 4.2 GW appears centre-right as a cluster of modest biomass CHP plants with rounded digesters and short stacks, warmly lit by yellow facility lights. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam structure visible in the middle distance, water glinting under artificial light. The sky is completely dark — deep navy to black, no twilight glow, no sunset remnant — it is 22:00 in late August. Stars are faintly visible but the atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, hazy, reflecting the high electricity price. The temperature is mild at 13.7°C; late-summer vegetation — green deciduous trees and grass — is barely discernible in the darkness. Sodium streetlights cast pools of amber along a road winding through the scene. The overall mood is industrious and tense. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of navy, amber, ochre, and grey; visible expressive brushwork; deep atmospheric perspective — yet every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, CCGT exhaust stack, and conveyor belt is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.