Wind energy at 33.1 GW dominates an overcast October morning, pushing day-ahead prices to zero.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 57%
Wind offshore 14%
Solar 7%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
88%
Renewable share
33.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.1 GW
Solar
47.0 GW
Total generation
1.0 GW
Net import
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Day-ahead price
10.8°C / 10 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
78
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 and tubular towers stretching across rolling autumn hills, blades visibly turning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 6.4 GW appears in the far background as a line of larger turbines rising from a grey North Sea horizon. Solar 3.1 GW occupies a small area in the mid-ground as rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on an open field, their surfaces dull and reflective-grey under heavy overcast — no sunlight on them. Biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a cluster of medium-scale wood-fired power plants with cylindrical silos and moderate steam plumes, positioned left-of-centre. Natural gas 2.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a thin transparent heat shimmer, positioned in the left quarter. Brown coal 2.1 GW is depicted as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers emitting dense white steam, adjacent to a strip mine with layered brown earth, at the far left. Hard coal 0.8 GW is a single smaller conventional smokestack behind the gas plant. Hydro 0.9 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with white spillwater in the lower foreground. Time is 08:00 in October: full daylight but heavily diffused — the entire sky is a uniform blanket of thick grey-white stratus clouds with no blue or sun visible, casting flat even illumination without shadows. The atmosphere is calm and tranquil despite the industrial elements, evoking a near-zero electricity price. Temperature around 11°C: trees show early-autumn colour — muted gold and russet foliage, damp green grass, a light mist hanging in low valleys. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on all turbines, towers, panels, and industrial structures. No text, no labels.