Wind leads at 19.4 GW combined, but 7.7 GW net imports are needed as evening demand peaks under overcast skies.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 14%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 18%
67%
Renewable share
19.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
6.4 GW
Solar
46.7 GW
Total generation
7.7 GW
Net import
160.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.5°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 110.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
244
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.5 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling green hills, blades visibly turning in brisk wind. Wind offshore 3.9 GW appears in the distant right background as a cluster of turbines rising from a grey-blue sea on the horizon. Brown coal 8.5 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes, surrounded by excavated brown earth. Solar 6.4 GW is rendered in the centre-left foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels, their surfaces dull under the overcast sky, reflecting muted grey light. Hard coal 3.8 GW appears left of centre as a coal-fired plant with tall smokestacks and a conveyor belt, dark smoke mixing with the steam. Biomass 4.1 GW is shown as a mid-sized industrial facility with wood-chip silos and a modest exhaust stack in the centre background. Natural gas 3.3 GW sits centre-right as a compact CCGT plant with a single gleaming exhaust stack and turbine housing. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam and powerhouse visible in a valley in the far centre-left distance. The sky is entirely overcast with heavy, layered grey clouds — an oppressive, dense atmosphere befitting a 160.5 EUR/MWh price — with a narrow band of orange-red dusk glow along the lower western horizon, the sky above darkening toward deep blue-grey as the sun has nearly set at 18:00 in late August. Temperature is warm at 23.5°C; vegetation is lush late-summer green, crops near harvest. Wind animates the scene — grass bends, turbine blades blur, steam plumes shear sideways. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, chiaroscuro interplay between the fading dusk light and the industrial glow of plant lights beginning to switch on, Caspar David Friedrich's sublime scale combined with meticulous engineering accuracy of each technology. No text, no labels.