Wind leads at 23 GW but 20 GW of coal and gas plus imports are needed to meet evening peak demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 40%
Wind offshore 8%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 21%
59%
Renewable share
23.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
48.8 GW
Total generation
8.8 GW
Net import
215.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.1°C / 8 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
294
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 19.3 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, rotors turning steadily; brown coal 10.4 GW occupies the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting; natural gas 5.0 GW appears as a cluster of compact CCGT plants with single tall exhaust stacks and white vapor trails in the centre-left; hard coal 4.5 GW sits adjacent as a blocky power station with conveyor belts and a smokestack; wind offshore 4.0 GW is suggested by a distant line of turbines on the far-right horizon over a faintly visible dark sea; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a gently smoking stack near the centre; hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam structure with spillway in the lower foreground. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no moon visible, heavy 100% overcast blanket pressing down oppressively — an atmosphere of weight and cost reflecting the 215.7 EUR/MWh price. The only illumination comes from sodium streetlights casting amber pools along roads, glowing windows of control buildings, and the orange-white industrial floodlights on the coal plants. Late summer vegetation — green deciduous trees and grass — is barely visible in the artificial light, temperature mild at 16°C. Light wind animates the turbine blades and drifts the steam plumes gently. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. The mood is somber, industrial, monumental. No text, no labels.