Wind onshore leads at 12.1 GW but 17.8 GW net imports are needed under full overcast at evening peak demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 9%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 16%
68%
Renewable share
12.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.9 GW
Solar
31.1 GW
Total generation
-17.8 GW
Net import
134.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.0°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 13.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
222
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.1 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, blades visibly angled by strong wind; brown coal 4.9 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes into the heavy sky; biomass 4.4 GW appears left of centre as a collection of modest industrial buildings with wood-chip conveyor belts and short stacks trailing thin smoke; natural gas 3.2 GW sits at centre as two compact CCGT units with sleek single exhaust stacks venting heat shimmer; solar 2.9 GW is a field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dark and reflective under overcast light, producing almost no glint; hard coal 1.8 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single large smokestack beside a rail-served coal yard near the left foreground; hydro 1.3 GW is a modest concrete dam with spillway visible in a valley in the far background; wind offshore 0.5 GW is barely visible as a few tiny turbines on the distant horizon line suggesting the North Sea. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, painted in oppressive layers of dark slate-grey and pewter — the hour is 19:00 in early May so the light is a dim, fading dusk glow along the lowest horizon in muted amber-orange, the upper sky already deepening toward charcoal, casting the landscape in heavy twilight. The atmosphere feels dense and weighty, reflecting the high electricity price. Lush late-spring vegetation — bright green beech and linden trees in full leaf, wildflower meadows — reflects the 22°C warmth. Wind visibly bends tall grasses and tree crowns. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric sfumato in the cloud layers, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's concrete texture, every PV panel's aluminium frame — evoking Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale but applied to the modern industrial energy landscape. No text, no labels.