Wind leads at 17 GW but brown coal, gas, and imports fill a large evening demand gap with no solar.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 24%
53%
Renewable share
18.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
45.2 GW
Total generation
7.8 GW
Net import
229.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.6°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
97.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
327
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling dark hills; brown coal 11.0 GW occupies the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the blackness, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles; natural gas 7.9 GW appears in the centre-left as a cluster of compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 2.6 GW sits as a smaller coal-fired plant with a single rectangular stack and coal bunkers near the brown coal complex; biomass 4.6 GW is represented by several modest industrial buildings with small chimneys and wood-chip storage domes in the mid-ground; wind offshore 1.4 GW appears as a distant line of turbines on a dark horizon suggesting the North Sea; hydro 0.9 GW is a small dam structure with spillway barely visible at the far right edge. TIME: 20:00 in October — fully dark, deep black sky with 97% cloud cover meaning no stars visible, only a faint dark-grey overcast ceiling lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting. Temperature 9.6°C: late-autumn vegetation, bare branches on scattered trees, brown and muted-green meadows. Moderate wind suggested by slightly angled steam plumes and turbine blade motion blur. HIGH PRICE atmosphere: heavy, oppressive low clouds pressing down on the scene, dense and brooding. Foreground shows a small German village with warm-lit windows and amber streetlights casting pools of orange light on wet cobblestone. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of deep navy, coal-black, burnt umber and sodium amber; visible impasto brushwork; dramatic chiaroscuro between industrial glow and surrounding darkness; meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine rotors, cooling tower parabolic profiles, and CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.