Overcast skies limit solar to 14.8 GW; brown coal and large net imports fill a 62 GW demand gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 37%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 19%
63%
Renewable share
5.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.8 GW
Solar
39.7 GW
Total generation
22.3 GW
Net import
143.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.5°C / 16 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
265
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 14.8 GW occupies the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle green hills, their surfaces reflecting only flat grey light under total overcast; brown coal 7.5 GW dominates the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the low ceiling of clouds, flanked by conveyor belts and open-pit earthworks; wind onshore 4.7 GW appears as a mid-ground row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, blades turning at moderate speed; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall stack and wood-chip storage silos near the left-centre; hard coal 3.6 GW sits behind the lignite complex as a second power station with a single large smokestack and coal bunkers; natural gas 3.4 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a slim exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer near centre-left; hydro 0.9 GW is a small dam and spillway visible in the distant right valley; wind offshore 0.8 GW shows as a faint line of turbines on the far horizon. The sky is entirely blanketed by heavy, uniform stratiform cloud at 100 percent cover — no blue sky, no direct sunlight, a flat diffuse brightness consistent with 08:00 full daylight on a summer morning. The atmosphere feels oppressive and weighty, reflecting the 143.3 EUR/MWh price — humid, still air with a haze that compresses distance. Temperature is a mild 20.5 degrees Celsius; vegetation is lush midsummer green — tall grasses, full deciduous canopies, wildflowers along field edges. High-voltage transmission pylons march from the horizon toward the viewer, suggesting large power flows from beyond the frame. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour with visible expressive brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic cloud modelling, and meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and panel array. No text, no labels.