Strong wind and fading solar dominate generation, but 12.9 GW net imports fill the evening demand gap at high prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 42%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 22%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
88%
Renewable share
17.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.6 GW
Solar
34.6 GW
Total generation
12.9 GW
Net import
171.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.9°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 75.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
94
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 14.5 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles, their rotors spinning briskly in visible wind across rolling green summer hills. Solar 7.6 GW appears in the centre-right foreground as large fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels reflecting dim overcast light. Wind offshore 3.4 GW is visible in the far background as a cluster of turbines rising from a grey sea on the distant horizon. Biomass 3.6 GW occupies the centre-left as a modest industrial facility with wood-chip storage silos and a low smokestack emitting thin white vapour. Brown coal 3.0 GW fills the left background as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white-grey steam plumes billowing upward. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small dam and turbine house nestled in a wooded valley in the far left. Hard coal 0.7 GW is rendered as a single dark industrial stack beside a coal bunker in the centre-left, with thin grey exhaust. Natural gas 0.5 GW appears as one compact CCGT unit with a single exhaust stack, barely visible behind the biomass plant. The sky is entirely overcast with dense, heavy, oppressive grey-white clouds pressing low — no blue sky visible — conveying high electricity prices. The lighting is dusk at 18:00 in late August: a fading orange-red glow along the lower western horizon, the sky above darkening from slate grey toward deep blue-grey, warm ambient light catching turbine blades and panel surfaces with a copper tint. Lush green late-summer vegetation covers the hills, trees in full leaf, grasses tall. Wind animates the scene: grass bends, tree canopies sway, turbine blades show motion blur. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening the distant offshore turbines and cooling towers — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.