Solar leads at 31.5 GW under full overcast; brown coal and imports bridge a 5.6 GW gap to demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 56%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 13%
74%
Renewable share
5.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.5 GW
Solar
56.6 GW
Total generation
5.6 GW
Net import
99.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.1°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 17.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
185
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 31.5 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green summer fields in the right half and foreground, their surfaces reflecting a flat white-grey sky. Brown coal 7.2 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick steam plumes merging into the overcast ceiling, beside conveyor belts carrying dark lignite. Wind onshore 4.4 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines on a gentle ridge in the centre-left, blades turning slowly in light breeze. Hard coal 4.0 GW sits as a large power station with rectangular stacks and coal bunkers adjacent to the brown coal complex but distinguished by darker, more compact architecture. Biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a single rounded silo and thin exhaust. Natural gas 3.3 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a gleaming single exhaust stack and modest heat plume, tucked between the coal plants and wind turbines. Hydro 1.7 GW is suggested by a small dam and penstock visible in a valley in the distant centre. Wind offshore 0.8 GW is barely visible as a faint row of turbines on the far horizon line suggesting a distant sea. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, a heavy uniform pale-grey blanket with no blue or sun disc visible, yet midday brightness (11:00 Berlin time, late June) ensures the landscape is fully daylit in soft, shadowless illumination. Temperature 21°C: lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf, wildflowers in meadow grass. The atmosphere feels oppressive and heavy, reflecting the high 99.1 EUR/MWh price — a thick, humid, weighty stillness over the industrial landscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth, dramatic compositional scale contrasting vast industrial infrastructure with pastoral terrain, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell pattern, cooling tower curvature, and smokestack detail. No text, no labels.