Wind and solar lead domestic generation while 21.8 GW net imports fill the evening demand gap at high prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 18%
Biomass 17%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 11%
78%
Renewable share
10.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.9 GW
Solar
26.9 GW
Total generation
-21.7 GW
Net import
154.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.5°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 198.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
152
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 7.4 GW dominates the right third of the scene as a deep field of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, their rotors turning gently in moderate wind; wind offshore 3.0 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon over a sliver of sea. Solar 4.9 GW occupies the centre-right as expansive rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels on a gentle slope, catching the last low-angle golden-orange light. Biomass 4.5 GW fills the centre as a cluster of modest industrial buildings with wood-chip silos and thin exhaust stacks emitting pale vapour. Brown coal 3.0 GW anchors the left side as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with dense white steam plumes rising into the sky, flanked by conveyor belts and open-pit mine terraces. Natural gas 2.2 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller secondary stack, clean metallic surfaces glinting. Hard coal 0.7 GW is a small conventional power station with a single modest smokestack at the far left edge. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir nestled in a wooded valley in the mid-ground left. The sky is a late-dusk scene at 19:00 in May — the upper sky deepening from steel blue to indigo, the lower western horizon glowing intense orange-red and copper, rapidly fading; the atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, hazy, reflecting the high electricity price. Lush late-spring vegetation with full green foliage on deciduous trees, wildflowers in meadows, temperature suggesting a warm pleasant evening. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — with rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's reinforced concrete ribs. No text, no labels.