Wind leads at 17.8 GW with coal providing 11.8 GW as overcast skies and evening demand drive imports and elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 20%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 16%
69%
Renewable share
17.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.4 GW
Solar
47.1 GW
Total generation
8.6 GW
Net import
178.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.0°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 4.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
229
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.7 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast sky, surrounded by conveyor belts carrying lignite; hard coal 4.1 GW sits just right of centre-left as a pair of smaller industrial stacks with dark smoke wisps and coal storage yards; natural gas 2.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and clean metallic turbine housing near centre; wind onshore 13.7 GW sprawls across the right half of the composition as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across green rolling hills, blades visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 4.1 GW is visible in the far-right background as a line of turbines standing in a grey sea on the distant horizon; solar 9.4 GW appears as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the middle ground, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey light under the heavy clouds — no sun visible; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a wood-clad industrial facility with a modest stack and wood-chip storage piles near the coal plants; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete dam with water flowing in the far left background among forested hills. The sky is entirely overcast with a thick, heavy blanket of stratus clouds in shades of slate and pewter, oppressive and low-hanging, conveying the high-price atmospheric tension. The lighting is that of 18:00 in late August — early dusk with a faint warm orange-red glow barely visible along the western horizon beneath the cloud layer, the rest of the sky darkening to deep grey. Late-summer vegetation is full and green but muted under the flat light. Temperature is warm at 23°C — the air feels humid and still despite the moderate wind aloft. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the brooding sky, meticulous engineering accuracy on all turbine nacelles, rotor blades, cooling tower geometries, and panel arrays. No text, no labels.