Strong wind leads generation but 8.4 GW net imports needed as overcast skies, evening demand, and coal baseload define the grid.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 45%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 7%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 16%
72%
Renewable share
28.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.6 GW
Solar
51.4 GW
Total generation
8.3 GW
Net import
212.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.1°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 45.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
206
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 23.2 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green-brown late-summer hills, blades visibly turning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 5.3 GW appears as a distant cluster of tall turbines on the far-right horizon above a faint grey sea line. Brown coal 8.2 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, conveyor belts feeding raw brown coal into vast boiler houses. Natural gas 3.2 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, positioned center-left. Hard coal 3.1 GW sits adjacent as a smaller coal-fired station with a single cooling tower and coal stockpiles. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip silo and modest stack, tucked between the coal plants and the wind turbines. Solar 3.6 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the center-middle distance, their surfaces dull and unreflective under the overcast sky. Hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir barely visible in a river winding through the valley floor. The sky is dusk at 18:00 in late September: a rapidly fading orange-red glow hugs the lower western horizon, the upper sky darkening to slate grey and deep blue-grey, entirely blanketed in thick stratus clouds with no break. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, hazy, reflecting the 212 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is mild at 17°C; vegetation is late-summer green beginning to turn, with some yellowing leaves on scattered deciduous trees. The whole composition feels weighty and brooding. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and panel frame. No text, no labels.