Wind leads at 21.6 GW but 7.7 GW net imports needed under full overcast with negligible solar at pre-dawn.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 43%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 1%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 18%
67%
Renewable share
21.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.4 GW
Solar
40.8 GW
Total generation
-7.7 GW
Net import
115.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.8°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
233
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.6 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green hills into deep atmospheric perspective; wind offshore 4.0 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a sliver of grey North Sea; brown coal 7.2 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy sky; natural gas 3.8 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT blocks with slim exhaust stacks and faint heat shimmer; hard coal 2.3 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular boiler house and conveyor belt beside a dark coal heap, just left of centre; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a cylindrical silo and wood-chip storage yard, modest steam rising; hydro 1.7 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir with foaming white spillway in the left foreground beside a river; solar 0.4 GW is represented by a barely visible small rooftop array on a farmhouse, panels dark and unlit. Time is 05:00 early June pre-dawn: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm tones, only cold ambient half-light; 100% cloud cover forms a thick unbroken stratus ceiling pressing low and oppressive, conveying the high electricity price atmosphere. Lush mid-June vegetation — tall green grass, leafy deciduous trees — glistens with morning dew. A few sodium-orange streetlights glow along a road in the foreground. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, layered colour with visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, moody chiaroscuro between the cold pre-dawn sky and warm industrial light, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower texture, and power-line insulator. No text, no labels.