Strong onshore wind dominates at 28.7 GW; brown coal provides 6.0 GW baseload; Germany exports roughly 4.7 GW at dawn.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 60%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 13%
81%
Renewable share
33.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
47.6 GW
Total generation
+4.6 GW
Net export
105.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.8°C / 19 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
35.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
138
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 28.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of towering three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and aerodynamic nacelles stretching across rolling autumnal hills, blades visibly angled into a strong breeze. Brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes drifting sideways in the wind, beside a lignite conveyor and open-pit silhouette. Wind offshore 4.9 GW appears on the distant horizon as a row of turbines standing in a dark sea visible through a gap in the hills. Natural gas 2.3 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a slim heat-recovery steam generator tucked between the coal plant and the wind farm. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip silo and a short smokestack releasing thin grey vapour. Hydro 0.9 GW is a small dam with a thin cascade of white water in the lower foreground. Hard coal 0.8 GW is a single modest smokestack behind the gas plant. The sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn, no direct sunlight, only a faint pale band of cold light emerging along the eastern horizon — no orange, no warm glow, just the earliest hint of astronomical twilight. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, with a brooding overcast layer above reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is near 8 °C: sparse autumn foliage in muted ochre and rust clings to birch and oak trees, frost edges the grass. Wind visibly bends the remaining leaves and ripples puddles on the ground. Sodium-yellow streetlights glow along a country road in the lower foreground. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale meeting meticulous industrial-engineering accuracy: visible lattice tower cross-bracing on turbines, riveted steel on the CCGT housing, textured concrete on cooling towers. No text, no labels.