Overcast skies limit solar; brown coal, imports, and moderate wind sustain high morning demand at elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 24%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 22%
56%
Renewable share
5.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.4 GW
Solar
34.8 GW
Total generation
24.1 GW
Net import
152.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.2°C / 26 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
316
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.7 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers exhaling thick white steam plumes into the heavy sky; solar 8.4 GW occupies the centre-left as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces dull grey under diffuse light, reflecting no sunlight; wind onshore 5.1 GW fills the centre-right as rows of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in strong wind, green summer grass and leafy trees bending at their bases; hard coal 4.1 GW appears as a coal-fired plant with a tall brick stack and conveyor belts of black coal, positioned behind the wind turbines; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a timber-clad facade and a single stack producing thin white exhaust, surrounded by stacked wood-chip piles; natural gas 3.4 GW stands as a compact CCGT plant with a gleaming exhaust stack and small vapour trail to the right; hydro 1.5 GW appears in the far right as a concrete dam with water cascading from spillways into a forested river valley; wind offshore 0.8 GW is visible as a distant cluster of turbines on the far horizon line. The sky is entirely overcast with a uniform ceiling of heavy, oppressive grey-white stratus clouds at 100% coverage — no blue sky, no sun visible, no direct shadows — creating a flat, diffuse, slightly suffocating light. The time is early morning dawn at 07:00 in late June: the eastern horizon shows a faint pale luminescence behind the cloud layer, a cool blue-grey pre-dawn glow transitioning to full overcast daylight. The atmosphere feels heavy and pressured, hinting at the high electricity price. Temperature is a warm 21°C: lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf, tall grass, wildflowers. Wind at 26 km/h animates the scene — grass ripples, tree canopies sway, turbine blades blur with motion, steam plumes from cooling towers shear and drift rapidly to the west. Style: a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with misty depth — yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, aluminium PV frames, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust stacks. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.