Strong onshore wind leads generation but full overcast and high demand drive 11.7 GW net imports and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 45%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 9%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 14%
73%
Renewable share
23.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
4.2 GW
Solar
46.3 GW
Total generation
-11.7 GW
Net import
115.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.0°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 29.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
187
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 20.7 GW dominates the right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, their rotors turning in moderate wind; brown coal 6.3 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising against the heavy sky; natural gas 4.3 GW appears as two compact CCGT plants with sleek single exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer just left of centre; solar 4.2 GW is rendered as a field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dull and reflectionless under the overcast; wind offshore 3.1 GW is visible far in the background as a line of turbines on the distant horizon suggesting the North Sea coast; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a wood-chip-fed plant with a modest smokestack and conveyor belts at the far left; hydro 1.9 GW is a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a valley at the far right; hard coal 1.8 GW is a single brick-chimney power station with a dark plume near the brown coal towers. The scene is set at 19:00 Berlin time on a June evening — dusk lighting with a fading orange-red glow along the very lowest horizon line, the rest of the sky filled with a heavy, unbroken 100% overcast in oppressive slate-grey tones suggesting high electricity prices. Lush midsummer vegetation in deep greens, temperature around 18°C giving a mild humid atmosphere. The overall mood is weighty and industrious. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich, saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze — yet every piece of energy infrastructure is depicted with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometries, PV cell grid patterns. No text, no labels.