Strong onshore wind leads at 22.7 GW but heavy cloud and evening demand drive 7.5 GW net imports and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 43%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 20%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 10%
81%
Renewable share
26.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
10.6 GW
Solar
52.4 GW
Total generation
-7.5 GW
Net import
116.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.1°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
95.0% / 92.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
139
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 22.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills into the hazy distance, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; solar 10.6 GW appears in the centre-right as large arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on green spring fields, reflecting only diffuse grey light; brown coal 5.0 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting eastward; wind offshore 3.4 GW is suggested on the distant northern horizon as a faint row of turbines barely visible through atmospheric haze; hard coal 2.6 GW sits left-centre as a single large power station with twin chimneys emitting thin grey smoke; natural gas 2.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.0 GW shows as a pair of modest industrial buildings with short stacks and faint wisps of vapour, nestled between the coal plants and wind turbines; hydro 1.6 GW appears as a small concrete dam with water flowing in the foreground left valley. The sky is 95% overcast with thick stratiform clouds, lit from the lower-right horizon with a narrow band of warm orange-red dusk glow at 17:00 Berlin time — the upper sky darkening to slate grey and deep blue-grey, last light catching the undersides of clouds. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting a high electricity price. Spring vegetation at 9°C: fresh pale-green grass, budding deciduous trees not yet in full leaf, damp earth tones. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with industrial realism — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the fading dusk light and the darkening industrial landscape. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT exhaust detail. No text, no labels.