Wind leads at 16.3 GW but 13.6 GW net imports are needed as solar is absent and demand reaches 48.7 GW.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 14%
Solar 2%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 19%
64%
Renewable share
16.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.6 GW
Solar
35.1 GW
Total generation
-13.6 GW
Net import
118.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.9°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
256
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 11.3 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills; wind offshore 5.0 GW appears as a distant row of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark North Sea sliver. Brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes and a cluster of wide chimneys. Natural gas 3.8 GW sits left of centre as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a low rectangular turbine hall, visible heat shimmer rising. Biomass 3.7 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a domed wood-chip storage silo and a single smokestack just behind the gas plant. Hard coal 2.1 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a single square cooling tower and conveyor belts, nestled beside the brown coal complex. Hydro 1.8 GW is represented by a small concrete dam and penstock visible in a wooded valley in the middle distance. Solar 0.6 GW is barely hinted at by a few dark aluminium-framed crystalline PV panels on a barn roof, completely unlit. Time is 05:00 in June: the sky is deep blue-grey pre-dawn, no direct sunlight, only the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon; the rest of the sky is utterly overcast at 98% cloud cover, heavy and oppressive low stratus pressing down. Temperature is 8.9 °C: lush early-summer foliage glistens with dew. Moderate wind bends grasses and spins turbine blades visibly. The atmosphere feels heavy and costly, reflecting a high electricity price — a brooding industrial weight over the land. Sodium-orange lights glow from the power station complexes and a small town in the valley. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, dark colour palette of Prussian blue, slate grey, amber industrial glow, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric sfumato depth — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.