Wind and solar lead at 71% renewable share, but 10 GW net imports and thermal backup drive prices to 131 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 28%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 27%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 15%
71%
Renewable share
17.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.0 GW
Solar
51.9 GW
Total generation
-10.0 GW
Net import
131.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.5°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
92.0% / 75.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
207
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 14.8 GW dominates the right half of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling green Thuringian hills, rotors visibly turning in a brisk breeze. Solar 14.0 GW fills the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on low-angle mounting racks, reflecting dull grey sky with no direct sunlight. Brown coal 7.9 GW anchors the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a cluster of smaller industrial plants with wood-chip conveyors and modest stacks emitting thin vapour, positioned centre-left. Natural gas 3.9 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat-recovery steam generator, placed between the lignite station and the biomass cluster. Hard coal 3.2 GW shows as a coal-fired plant with a rectangular boiler house, conveyor belt feeding from a dark coal pile, and a tall chimney with faint grey exhaust, just left of centre. Wind offshore 2.4 GW is visible in the far background as a row of turbines on a hazy North Sea horizon glimpsed through a gap in the terrain. Hydro 1.8 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and reservoir tucked into a valley in the far right middle ground. The sky is 92% overcast — a heavy, layered blanket of stratocumulus in tones of slate, pewter, and dull silver, with only faint diffuse brightness suggesting the morning sun behind dense cloud. Lighting is full June-morning daylight but flat and shadowless, 08:00 Berlin time. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, echoing the high electricity price — humid air, low ceiling, no horizon clarity. Temperature 13.5°C: lush early-summer vegetation, deep green grass, full-leafed deciduous trees, wildflowers in meadow edges. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth crossed with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision. Rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant objects. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy — turbine blade pitch mechanisms, PV cell grid lines, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT heat exchangers. No text, no labels, no human figures dominant — the machines and the landscape are the subject.