Strong onshore wind drives 81% renewable share and 13.1 GW net exports in pre-dawn Germany.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 62%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 1%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 11%
81%
Renewable share
35.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.3 GW
Solar
51.4 GW
Total generation
+13.1 GW
Net export
70.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.8°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
70.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
143
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 32.1 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and streamlined nacelles stretching across rolling green hills from centre to far right, their rotors visibly spinning in strong wind; wind offshore 3.8 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines on the far-right horizon emerging from a grey sea; brown coal 5.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that drift rightward in the wind; hard coal 2.8 GW sits just right of the brown coal complex as a smaller coal plant with rectangular boiler houses and a single tall chimney trailing dark smoke; biomass 4.4 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with cylindrical digesters, wood-chip silos, and low exhaust stacks releasing thin vapour; natural gas 1.1 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT unit with a single polished exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer near the biomass plant; hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a concrete dam visible along a river in the middle distance. TIME: early dawn at 06:00 — the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no golden tones, the landscape lit by diffuse pre-dawn glow and scattered sodium-orange industrial lights on the power stations. Cloud cover at 70% creates a heavy overcast ceiling of layered grey stratus. Late-summer vegetation — tall green deciduous trees in full leaf, mature crop fields with golden-brown wheat stubble, lush grass. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive despite the wind, with a warm humidity suggested by haze around the cooling towers. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, dark Romantic palette of deep Prussian blues, warm umber industrial tones, and cool grey-green fields; visible impasto brushwork in the clouds and steam; meticulous engineering accuracy in turbine blade profiles, cooling tower parabolic geometry, and lattice transmission towers carrying cables across the scene; atmospheric aerial perspective fading the offshore turbines into misty grey distance. No text, no labels, no human figures.