Onshore wind leads at 15.7 GW with brown coal at 8.7 GW under full overcast, driving 2 GW net export.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 21%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 18%
71%
Renewable share
18.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
10.1 GW
Solar
47.5 GW
Total generation
+2.1 GW
Net export
127.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.2°C / 4 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
215
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.7 GW dominates the right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills into atmospheric depth, their rotors turning slowly; brown coal 8.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that blend upward into the overcast sky; solar 10.1 GW appears in the centre-left middle ground as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a gentle slope, their surfaces dull and reflective under diffuse light with no direct sun; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial plant with wood-chip conveyors and a single smokestack with thin exhaust, placed between the coal plant and the wind turbines; natural gas 2.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a tall narrow exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, positioned near the coal complex; hard coal 2.3 GW shows as a smaller conventional power station with a rectangular boiler house and twin stacks behind the lignite towers; wind offshore 2.7 GW is suggested by distant turbines on the far horizon line; hydro 0.8 GW is a small run-of-river weir visible in a stream in the near foreground. The time is 08:00 in late September: full daylight but entirely diffuse, no shadows, a flat white-grey sky at 100% cloud cover pressing heavily downward. Temperature is 10°C: early autumn, deciduous trees show the first yellowing leaves, grass is damp and green-grey. The atmosphere feels oppressive and weighty, reflecting the high electricity price — haze thickens around the industrial structures. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich tonal depth, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric perspective with distant turbines fading into mist, meticulous engineering accuracy on every nacelle, cooling tower, and panel frame. No text, no labels.