Strong onshore wind at 28.7 GW leads generation; brown coal holds 8.0 GW baseload under full overcast with no solar.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 54%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 0%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 15%
76%
Renewable share
35.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
52.6 GW
Total generation
+0.2 GW
Net export
123.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.9°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
181
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 28.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast rows of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers receding across rolling central German farmland, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge with the overcast sky; wind offshore 6.4 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on the far-right horizon suggesting the North Sea coast; biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial plant with a woodchip silo and modest exhaust; natural gas 2.7 GW sits as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer near the coal plant; hard coal 2.2 GW appears as a smaller power station with conveyor belts and a rectangular chimney beside the lignite complex; hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir in a stream cutting through the foreground meadow. The lighting is early dawn at 06:00 in late September — a deep blue-grey sky with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight visible, no solar panels anywhere. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, a heavy uniform blanket of stratiform grey pressing down oppressively, evoking the high electricity price. Temperature is cool at 10.9°C; the grass is damp, dew visible on fence posts and turbine bases, early autumn coloring in scattered birch and oak trees with leaves beginning to yellow. The atmosphere is thick, humid, slightly hazy with industrial steam diffusing into cloud. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, sombre palette of slate blues, umber browns, and muted greens, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and industrial structure. No text, no labels.