Wind onshore leads at 12.1 GW alongside 11.6 GW of coal under full overcast with no solar, requiring 7.3 GW net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 37%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 0%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 23%
59%
Renewable share
14.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
32.8 GW
Total generation
7.3 GW
Net import
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Day-ahead price
14.9°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
310
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.1 GW dominates the right half of the composition as dozens of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling central German hills, blades turning steadily in moderate wind; brown coal 7.7 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the grey sky; hard coal 3.9 GW appears left of centre as a smaller coal plant with rectangular boiler houses, tall square chimneys, and coal conveyor belts; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized biomass CHP plants with rounded wood-chip silos and modest steam stacks nestled among trees in the mid-ground; wind offshore 2.3 GW is glimpsed as distant turbines on the far horizon through haze; natural gas 2.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single polished exhaust stack and air-cooled condenser near the coal complex; hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible along a river in the foreground valley. Time is early dawn at 06:00 in mid-September: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no sun disc visible, full 100% cloud cover forming a heavy uniform stratus layer pressing low over the landscape. No solar panels anywhere—zero solar generation. Temperature around 15°C: vegetation is late-summer green beginning to hint at early autumn, dew on grass, mist pooling in the river valley. The 0.0 EUR/MWh price is evoked by a calm, still, almost eerily quiet atmosphere despite the industrial activity. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich, moody palette of slate blues, iron greys, mossy greens, and warm amber from scattered sodium lights on the industrial facilities; visible impasto brushwork in the clouds and steam; atmospheric aerial perspective creating depth from the foreground river through the mid-ground plants to the distant wind turbines vanishing into overcast haze. Meticulous engineering accuracy on all technology: lattice-and-tubular tower details, three-blade rotor geometry, cooling tower parabolic curves, conveyor gantries. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.