Strong onshore wind leads at 26 GW under full overcast, with brown coal and gas filling the thermal balance at elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 43%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 14%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 13%
75%
Renewable share
32.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.3 GW
Solar
61.1 GW
Total generation
0.3 GW
Net import
178.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.5°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 3.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
176
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 26.3 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills into the misty distance, rotors turning in moderate wind. Brown coal 7.9 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of four massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast, beside a lignite conveyor and power block with tall stacks. Solar 8.3 GW appears in the centre-left foreground as a large field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a hillside, their surfaces dull and reflecting only grey sky — no sunlight. Wind offshore 6.4 GW is visible on the far horizon as a line of offshore turbines rising from a grey North Sea sliver. Natural gas 4.6 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT units with single slender exhaust stacks and modest heat-shimmer plumes, nestled between the coal plant and the wind farm. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a medium-sized industrial facility with a rounded wood-chip silo and a single stack emitting faint vapour, positioned in the mid-ground. Hard coal 2.7 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a square cooling tower and coal stockpile beside the lignite complex. Hydro 0.9 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir in a valley in the far left corner. The sky is entirely overcast, a heavy, oppressive blanket of stratiform cloud with no blue visible, lit by diffuse morning daylight — it is 08:00 in late September, so light is full but flat with no shadows. Temperature is 10.5 °C; vegetation shows early autumn tones — yellowing birches, fading green fields, damp earth. The atmosphere feels weighty and pressured, reflecting the high electricity price: the clouds press low, the air is dense with moisture and industrial steam. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, sombre earth tones, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric sfumato in the distance — yet every nacelle, every cooling tower profile, every PV panel frame is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.