Wind leads at 22.5 GW but 21 GW of fossil thermal and tight margins drive prices to 187 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 8%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 21%
57%
Renewable share
22.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
48.7 GW
Total generation
1.9 GW
Net import
186.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.3°C / 2 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
306
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.1 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into blackness; natural gas 6.4 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT plants with tall narrow exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.6 GW appears behind them as a blocky power station with conveyor belts and a single large smokestack; wind onshore 18.4 GW spans the entire right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, red aviation warning lights blinking on their nacelles; wind offshore 4.1 GW is suggested by a distant line of turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly reflective river or canal; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip-fed plant with a modest stack and warm amber glow from its furnace building, placed between the coal and wind zones; hydro 0.8 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible in the foreground near a canal. TIME: 22:00, fully dark — the sky is pitch black with 100% cloud cover, no stars, no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever. All illumination comes from sodium-orange streetlights lining a road in the foreground, the fiery glow of furnace openings, white industrial floodlights on the power stations, and the blinking red lights atop wind turbines receding into the distance. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, hazy with industrial moisture and warmth at 18°C; late-September vegetation is still green but darkened. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between artificial light and deep shadow, atmospheric depth conveyed through layers of haze and diminishing turbine lights. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor profiles, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower geometry, aluminium cladding on CCGT units. The mood evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sublime darkness meeting industrial sublime. No text, no labels.