Wind leads at 20.3 GW combined, but brown coal and net imports of 6.2 GW fill the nighttime gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 14%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 25%
59%
Renewable share
20.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
43.1 GW
Total generation
6.2 GW
Net import
163.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.5°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
6.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
300
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 14.1 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers arrayed across rolling dark hills, blades turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 6.2 GW appears in the far right distance as a cluster of turbines on a dark sea horizon, their red aviation lights blinking. Brown coal 10.9 GW occupies the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps, with conveyor belts and open-pit silhouettes. Biomass 4.2 GW sits left-of-center as a pair of industrial biogas facilities with squat cylindrical digesters and small chimneys with faint exhaust. Natural gas 3.8 GW appears center-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and clean metallic enclosures under bright industrial floodlights. Hard coal 2.9 GW is a single traditional power station with a rectangular boiler house and twin chimneys, glowing amber from internal furnace light. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small concrete dam structure with a reservoir gleaming faintly in the lower center foreground. The sky is completely dark — black to deep navy, no twilight, no sky glow — stars visible through 6% cloud cover, a few faint wisps of cirrus. The landscape is an early-autumn German lowland with browning grass and dark deciduous trees just beginning to turn, temperature 12.5°C suggested by a faint mist clinging to low ground. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive despite clear skies, conveying the tension of a 163 EUR/MWh price — a brooding, weighty darkness pressing down. Artificial light sources only: sodium-orange streetlights along a road, the industrial glow of power stations, red blinking turbine lights. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's brooding darkness meeting industrial sublimity — rich deep colours, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, dramatic chiaroscuro between the black sky and the fiery industrial glow. Meticulous engineering detail on all turbine nacelles, cooling tower geometries, CCGT stacks, and conveyor structures. No text, no labels.