Wind leads at 24.9 GW with coal and gas providing firm thermal backup on a clear summer night.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 19%
61%
Renewable share
24.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
50.2 GW
Total generation
+1.5 GW
Net export
163.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.2°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
11.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
272
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 19.6 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers stretching across rolling agricultural hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking against a black night sky; wind offshore 5.3 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of turbines on a dark horizon line above a faintly glinting sea; brown coal 9.3 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick luminous steam plumes, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; natural gas 6.9 GW fills the left-centre as two compact CCGT units with tall narrow exhaust stacks, their metal surfaces gleaming under halogen work lights; hard coal 3.5 GW appears behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional station with a single rectangular smokestack and conveyor belt infrastructure; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest chimney trailing pale smoke; hydro 1.2 GW is visible in the lower-left corner as a concrete dam spillway with water catching reflected light. The sky is completely black with no twilight glow, deep navy at the zenith fading to pure darkness at the horizons, scattered stars barely visible through a thin haze that imparts a heavy oppressive atmospheric weight reflecting the high electricity price. Late-summer vegetation — mature wheat stubble in harvested fields, full dark-green deciduous trees — is barely visible, lit only by the amber industrial glow of the power stations. The overall mood is brooding and weighty. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — with rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.