Strong onshore wind leads at 26.7 GW under heavy overcast, with brown coal and gas bridging a 5.7 GW net import gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 48%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 8%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 12%
77%
Renewable share
32.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.6 GW
Solar
55.4 GW
Total generation
5.7 GW
Net import
148.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.4°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
99.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
160
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 26.7 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 spinning briskly in strong wind; brown coal 6.4 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the low cloud deck; wind offshore 6.0 GW appears as a row of larger turbines on the far horizon, partially obscured by haze, standing in a glimpsed strip of grey sea; natural gas 4.8 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and modest heat shimmer, positioned left-centre; solar 4.6 GW is depicted as fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dull and lightless under the overcast, reflecting only flat grey sky; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single low smokestack with faint exhaust, nestled among autumn-thinned trees; hard coal 1.7 GW is a smaller conventional power station with rectangular cooling towers at far left; hydro 0.9 GW is suggested by a modest dam and spillway in a river valley at the lower-left corner. The time is 8:00 AM on an October morning — full daylight but deeply overcast with 99% cloud cover, a flat iron-grey sky pressing down with no direct sunlight, diffuse and shadowless illumination. Temperature is 7.4°C: the landscape shows late-autumn character with muted browns and fading greens, bare branches on some trees, frost lingering in shadowed hollows. Wind at 20 km/h bends grasses and shakes remaining leaves. The atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, and brooding, reflecting high electricity prices. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic tonal range from warm industrial glow to cold grey distance — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, rotor blade, cooling tower curve, and panel frame. No text, no labels.