Wind leads at 16.6 GW but heavy coal dispatch and 10 GW net imports drive prices to 185 EUR/MWh under overcast skies.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 1%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 22%
54%
Renewable share
16.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.4 GW
Solar
41.2 GW
Total generation
9.9 GW
Net import
185.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.3°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
98.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
330
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.2 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky, surrounded by open-pit lignite mining terraces with exposed brown earth. Hard coal 4.9 GW appears just right of centre-left as a smaller coal-fired plant with rectangular chimneys and visible coal conveyors. Natural gas 4.9 GW occupies the centre as two compact CCGT units with slender single exhaust stacks and modest heat shimmer. Wind onshore 12.8 GW spans the entire right half of the composition as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers receding across rolling green hills into the misty distance, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 3.8 GW appears as a faint row of turbines on the far-right horizon over a sliver of grey sea. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a rounded silo and low stack nestled among trees in the middle ground. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam and powerhouse tucked into a forested valley at far left. Solar 0.4 GW is represented by a tiny patch of dark, inert PV panels barely visible in the foreground, receiving no sunlight. The time is 06:00 in late August: the sky is a deep blue-grey pre-dawn light with no direct sun, the first faint pale luminosity along the eastern horizon behind the wind turbines, but no warm colours — the 98% cloud cover forms a dense, low, oppressive blanket of stratocumulus in muted greys. The atmosphere feels heavy and costly, with industrial haze blending into fog in the valleys. Temperature is a cool 15°C; late-summer vegetation is lush but muted in the dim light, with dewy grass and dark deciduous trees. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour in dark tones, visible impasto brushwork, profound atmospheric depth and Romantic melancholy — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, coal conveyor, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.