Wind leads at 21.4 GW but zero solar and high demand drive 9.8 GW net imports and elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 24%
61%
Renewable share
21.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
43.5 GW
Total generation
9.8 GW
Net import
186.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.1°C / 14 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
290
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.3 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into heavy overcast skies; wind onshore 15.8 GW fills the right half as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills, their rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears on the far right horizon as a row of turbines standing in a grey North Sea glimpsed through a valley gap; natural gas 3.8 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.1 GW appears just left of centre as a single large power station with a tall rectangular boiler house and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial plant with a rounded silo and short stack with pale exhaust; hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete dam with a spillway visible in the lower centre foreground beside a river. The sky is dawn at 06:00 in September — deep blue-grey pre-dawn light with no direct sunlight, the first faint pale luminosity on the eastern horizon beneath a completely overcast 100% cloud blanket, heavy and oppressive atmosphere reflecting the 186 EUR/MWh price. Temperature 13°C: early autumn vegetation, dew on grass, leaves beginning to turn amber at their edges. No solar panels anywhere. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, dark, atmospheric palette of slate blues, umber browns, and muted greens, visible textured brushwork, dramatic tonal depth — yet every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and gas-turbine exhaust stack is rendered with precise engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.