Wind leads at 19.8 GW but full cloud cover suppresses solar, driving coal dispatch and 5.5 GW net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 18%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 15%
67%
Renewable share
19.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.5 GW
Solar
51.5 GW
Total generation
5.5 GW
Net import
169.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.1°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 3.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
231
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.7 GW dominates the right half and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, blades turning steadily in moderate wind. Brown coal 7.9 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the heavy sky. Solar 9.5 GW appears in the center-left midground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels, their surfaces dark and unreflective under the overcast. Natural gas 4.9 GW sits center-right as two compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 4.1 GW appears left-center as a coal-fired station with a rectangular boiler house and a single large smokestack. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip plant with a conical fuel silo near the center. Wind offshore 3.1 GW is visible on the far-right horizon as a line of turbines rising from a distant grey sea. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small dam and penstock structure nestled in a valley on the far left. The sky is completely overcast with thick, low stratocumulus clouds in tones of slate grey and pewter, creating a heavy, oppressive atmosphere—no sunlight breaks through, direct radiation is near zero. Lighting is diffuse full daylight of a deeply clouded August morning, soft and shadowless. The landscape is lush late-summer green with mature deciduous trees in full leaf. The air feels humid and warm at 20 °C. The atmosphere conveys economic tension through the brooding, pressing cloud ceiling. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich, saturated earth tones, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze between layers—yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, rotor hubs, cooling tower parabolic profiles, PV cell grid lines. No text, no labels.