Wind leads at 20.5 GW but zero solar and high demand drive 10.9 GW brown coal and significant net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 25%
57%
Renewable share
20.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
43.9 GW
Total generation
9.9 GW
Net import
148.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.9°C / 18 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
309
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.9 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast sky; wind onshore 15.4 GW spans the entire background and right half as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers arrayed across rolling mid-German hills, rotors visibly spinning in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.1 GW appears as a distant row of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey river or estuary; natural gas 4.8 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT plants in the centre-left with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.1 GW sits beside the brown coal as a smaller conventional power station with a tall chimney and coal conveyor belts; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a modest wood-clad industrial building with a short stack and faint vapour in the centre; hydro 0.8 GW is a small weir and powerhouse along a stream in the foreground. Time is early dawn, 06:00 in October: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no sun disc visible; cloud cover is total, a heavy unbroken overcast pressing low. No solar panels anywhere — no sunshine exists. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: the clouds seem to weigh on the landscape, tinged faintly amber by sodium streetlights still glowing along a road in the foreground. Vegetation is mid-autumn: trees with thinning golden-brown and rust-coloured leaves, damp meadows. Temperature is mild, around 15°C, with a slight ground mist curling among the turbine bases. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth receding into hazy industrial distance, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the pre-dawn darkness, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and gas-turbine exhaust stack. No text, no labels.