Wind leads at 15.6 GW but 7.8 GW of net imports bridge the gap on a cool, pre-sunrise September morning.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 42%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 1%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 14%
67%
Renewable share
15.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.2 GW
Solar
30.0 GW
Total generation
7.8 GW
Net import
143.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.1°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
50.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
226
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.6 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling central German hills, their rotors turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 3.0 GW appears as a distant row of larger turbines on the far-right horizon over a faintly visible sea; brown coal 4.1 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy sky, adjacent to a lignite conveyor and open-pit edge; natural gas 3.7 GW sits left of centre as a compact CCGT plant with two tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour; hard coal 2.1 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a single rectangular boiler house and chimney behind the gas plant; biomass 3.4 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial facility with a cylindrical silo and wood-chip yard in the mid-ground between the thermal plants and the wind turbines; hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and reservoir nestled in a valley at the far left; solar 0.2 GW is absent from the scene — no panels visible. The lighting is early dawn at 06:00 in September: a deep blue-grey pre-dawn sky with the faintest pale steel-blue brightening along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight yet, landscape mostly in cool shadow with artificial sodium-orange lights glowing at the industrial facilities. Cloud cover at 50 percent shows broken stratus clouds in the upper sky, half-revealing darker blue above. Temperature 8.1°C: early autumn vegetation with some leaves turning gold and brown, dew on grass, cool misty atmosphere near the ground. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a brooding, weighty sky pressing down on the industrial landscape. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, moody colour palette of deep blues, slate greys, warm industrial oranges, visible textured brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the distant hills, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.