Strong onshore wind leads generation under full overcast; 6.7 GW net imports cover evening peak demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 16%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 11%
77%
Renewable share
25.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.1 GW
Solar
51.5 GW
Total generation
-6.7 GW
Net import
103.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.9°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 17.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
158
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 22.4 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors turning steadily in moderate wind. Wind offshore 3.5 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a faint grey sea line. Brown coal 5.8 GW occupies the left foreground as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles. Natural gas 3.9 GW sits left of centre as a compact CCGT plant with a tall slender exhaust stack and a smaller heat-recovery steam generator emitting a thin transparent plume. Solar 8.1 GW appears as a large field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels in the centre-left middle ground, their surfaces dull and reflectionless under the heavy clouds, producing weakly. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a modest smokestack and timber yard in the left middle distance. Hard coal 1.9 GW appears as a single conventional coal plant with a tall brick chimney behind the biomass facility. Hydro 1.9 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse beside a green-banked river in the right foreground. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform heavy grey ceiling with no blue, no sun disk visible — casting flat diffuse light appropriate for 18:00 in June with the sun still above the horizon but fully hidden. A faint warm amber-orange glow barely touches the western cloud base at the left horizon, hinting at the dusk behind the clouds. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — the air is dense, slightly hazy with industrial moisture, the clouds low and brooding. Lush mid-June vegetation: full green deciduous trees, tall grass, wildflowers along field edges, temperature a mild 17.9°C. The landscape is a broad central German plateau — gentle hills, patchwork farmland between energy installations. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colours, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, dramatic Caspar David Friedrich–style composition — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve, every PV panel's aluminium frame. No text, no labels, no people prominent.