Strong onshore and offshore wind drives 84% renewable share at zero price; 5.6 GW net import covers remaining demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 58%
Wind offshore 14%
Solar 2%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
84%
Renewable share
33.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.7 GW
Solar
46.6 GW
Total generation
5.5 GW
Net import
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Day-ahead price
12.8°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
86.0% / 39.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
112
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 26.8 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling central German hills from left of centre to the far right horizon, rotors visibly spinning in strong wind; wind offshore 6.4 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines on the far-right horizon over a grey sea glimpsed through a valley; brown coal 4.0 GW occupies the far left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white steam plumes drifting sideways in the wind, beside a conveyor belt and lignite stockpile; biomass 4.3 GW sits left-centre as a modest industrial plant with a tall rectangular stack and wood-chip storage silos; natural gas 2.3 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with a single slender exhaust stack emitting a thin heat shimmer; hard coal 1.1 GW is a smaller facility with a single square stack near the brown coal plant; solar 0.7 GW is represented by a small cluster of barely-visible aluminium-framed crystalline panels on a hillside, reflecting almost no light; hydro 0.9 GW shows as a small reservoir dam in a valley fold at centre. The sky is dusk at 18:00 in October — a narrow band of deep orange-red glow clings to the lower western horizon, rapidly fading upward into slate-grey and dark indigo overcast at 86% cloud cover. The atmosphere is calm and open despite the clouds, reflecting the zero electricity price. Autumn vegetation: muted golden-brown fields, bare-branching deciduous trees, dark green conifers. Temperature around 13°C — cool mist in low valleys. Wind bends the grass and autumn leaves visibly. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth combined with meticulous industrial-technical accuracy — rich colour palette of umber, ochre, Prussian blue, and burnt sienna, visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric recession. No text, no labels.