Onshore wind at 40 GW dominates an overcast autumn evening, with brown coal and biomass providing firm backup.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 68%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 0%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 7%
87%
Renewable share
45.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.3 GW
Solar
59.0 GW
Total generation
0.4 GW
Net import
106.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.0°C / 31 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
91
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 40.0 GW dominates the scene, filling two-thirds of the composition as vast ranks of modern three-blade wind turbines receding across rolling autumn fields, their rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind; wind offshore 5.9 GW appears at the far right horizon as a cluster of turbines standing in a grey sea glimpsed through a gap in the hills; brown coal 4.1 GW occupies the left background as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting sideways in the gale; biomass 4.1 GW sits beside them as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall rectangular stack and wood-chip storage yard; natural gas 2.8 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single slender exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer, positioned centre-left; hard coal 0.9 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single squat cooling tower behind the gas plant; hydro 0.9 GW is suggested by a small dam and penstock visible in a river valley at far left. The sky is entirely overcast with heavy, low stratus clouds in layered grey and slate-blue, lit from below along the western horizon by the last fading orange-red glow of dusk — the upper sky darkening toward deep indigo. No direct sunlight, no solar panels visible. The landscape is autumnal: golden-brown grasses, bare-limbed oaks and beeches with scattered remaining russet leaves, damp earth tones. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a brooding weight to the clouds pressing down on the industrial horizon. Sodium-orange lights begin to flicker on at the power plants and along a distant Autobahn. The wind whips the grass flat and bends the remaining leaves. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric chiaroscuro depth, luminous treatment of the dying light — but with meticulous modern engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and industrial structure. No text, no labels.