Solar leads at 33.7 GW under full overcast; brown coal and hard coal fill 10.2 GW of conventional baseload; Germany imports 2.3 GW.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 58%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 12%
78%
Renewable share
6.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.7 GW
Solar
57.9 GW
Total generation
2.3 GW
Net import
86.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.7°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 108.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
162
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 33.7 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering over half the canvas; brown coal 6.9 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into heavy grey skies; hard coal 3.3 GW appears as a dark coal-fired power station with tall rectangular stacks beside a conveyor and coal bunker; wind onshore 5.4 GW is represented by a modest row of three-blade turbines on distant ridgelines, rotors turning slowly in light breeze; natural gas 2.5 GW shows as a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer; biomass 3.5 GW appears as a wood-clad biomass plant with a rounded silo and short stack near a forest edge; hydro 1.7 GW is a small dam and spillway visible in a valley; wind offshore 0.8 GW is faintly suggested as tiny turbines on a far horizon line. TIME: early afternoon in late June — full daylight but entirely overcast, a flat uniform pale-grey cloud ceiling at 100% cover casting soft diffuse shadowless light across the landscape. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, a warm humid summer day at 23°C with lush deep-green deciduous trees, tall grass, and wildflowers. No direct sunshine, no blue sky visible anywhere. The mood is weighty and industrious. 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, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into misty grey distance — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower hyperbolic curve, every PV panel junction box and racking system. No text, no labels, no human figures.