Wind leads at 16.1 GW with solar fading; 24 GW net imports required to meet peak evening demand at high prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 21%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 14%
78%
Renewable share
16.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.4 GW
Solar
36.1 GW
Total generation
24.0 GW
Net import
206.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.4°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
41.0% / 177.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
163
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills; wind offshore 3.7 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on a hazy horizon line above a faint sea; solar 7.4 GW fills the centre-right foreground as rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on gentle slopes catching the last low-angle light; brown coal 5.0 GW occupies the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes against the sky; biomass 3.3 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage yard and a single squat smokestack with thin grey exhaust, positioned left of centre; natural gas 2.2 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a slender exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, tucked between the coal plant and biomass; hard coal 1.0 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a single square chimney trailing faint smoke at the far left edge; hydro 1.2 GW is shown as a small dam with cascading water in the left foreground valley. The sky reflects 18:00 early September dusk in central Germany — the sun sits very low on the western horizon casting deep orange-red light along the lower sky, with the upper sky transitioning from warm amber to deepening blue-grey. Scattered clouds at 41% coverage catch the warm sunset glow, some darker underneath suggesting an oppressive, heavy atmospheric weight conveying the extreme 206 EUR/MWh price. The air feels thick and warm at 26°C — late-summer vegetation is lush and deep green, trees full-canopied, grasses tall. A moderate breeze of 17 km/h animates the turbine blades mid-rotation and bends the grasses slightly. Direct sunlight at 177 W/m² casts long golden shadows across the PV arrays and landscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth with layered haze between the industrial structures and the distant offshore wind farm. Each technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, aluminium PV frames, lignite hyperbolic cooling towers with realistic steam dynamics, CCGT single exhaust stacks. The overall mood is grand, weighty, and industrially sublime. No text, no labels.