Strong onshore and offshore wind at 29.3 GW combined drives 79.6% renewable share at dawn under heavy overcast.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 55%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 1%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 14%
80%
Renewable share
29.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.4 GW
Solar
43.8 GW
Total generation
+3.1 GW
Net export
97.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.4°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
79.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
150
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 23.9 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling hills from the centre to the far right, blades visibly angled into a strong breeze with motion blur at tips; wind offshore 5.4 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on the far-right horizon emerging from a grey sea; brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes drifting rightward in the wind, beside a conveyor-fed lignite plant with exposed excavation terraces; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed power station with a single tall stack and modest steam output to the left of centre; natural gas 2.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with twin polished exhaust stacks and a slim vapour trail, positioned between the coal plant and the wind farms; hydro 1.3 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir with turbine housing visible along a dark river in the foreground valley; hard coal 0.9 GW is a smaller industrial building with a single square chimney emitting thin smoke, tucked beside the brown coal complex; solar 0.4 GW is barely visible as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dull and unreflective under the overcast. The sky is pre-dawn deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence on the eastern horizon — no direct sunlight, no warm tones — 79% cloud cover rendered as a thick unbroken stratiform layer pressing low. Temperature 13.4°C: late-summer vegetation still green but with the first hints of yellowing at field edges. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 97.1 EUR/MWh price — muted tones, a brooding weight to the clouds. Wind at 20 km/h animates grass, tree branches, and turbine blades. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the distant haze, Caspar David Friedrich's sublime scale combined with meticulous industrial-engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.