Wind leads at 20.3 GW but 17.6 GW net imports are needed as evening demand peaks under overcast skies.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 16%
Solar 10%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 17%
74%
Renewable share
20.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.1 GW
Solar
39.9 GW
Total generation
17.6 GW
Net import
180.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.6°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
95.0% / 50.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
195
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 14.1 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green hills, blades turning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 6.2 GW appears in the far right background as a line of larger turbines rising from a grey North Sea horizon. Brown coal 6.9 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the overcast sky, flanked by conveyor belts carrying dark brown lignite. Solar 4.1 GW is rendered as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre-left middle ground, their surfaces dull and unreflective under the heavy clouds, catching almost no light. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a tall rectangular stack and a woodchip storage dome just right of centre. Natural gas 2.2 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and visible steam heat-recovery unit in the left-centre middle ground. Hard coal 1.4 GW is a smaller coal station with a single square chimney trailing thin smoke, partially obscured behind the lignite complex. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a concrete dam and spillway visible in a valley gap on the far left. The sky is an oppressive 95% overcast ceiling of heavy stratocumulus in slate grey and muted ochre, lit from below at the western horizon by a thin band of deep orange-red twilight glow — it is 18:00 dusk in September, the upper sky already darkening to charcoal. The atmosphere feels heavy and expensive, humid air pressing down. Vegetation is late-summer green beginning to show the first amber hints of autumn, with fields of stubble and scattered deciduous trees. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric sfumato in the distance, dramatic chiaroscuro from the fading dusk light catching steam plumes and turbine blades. Meticulous engineering accuracy in every structure. No text, no labels.