Solar leads at 37.6 GW under overcast skies; brown coal and gas fill baseload as wind remains negligible.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 67%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 12%
78%
Renewable share
1.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.6 GW
Solar
56.4 GW
Total generation
3.7 GW
Net import
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Day-ahead price
27.1°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
93.0% / 339.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
156
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 37.6 GW dominates the scene, covering the entire right two-thirds of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling summer farmland. Brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the hazy sky. Biomass 3.6 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed power station with a modest smokestack and fuel storage silos. Natural gas 2.9 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, positioned left of centre. Hard coal 2.6 GW appears as a coal-fired station with conveyor belts and a rectangular stack beside the lignite complex. Hydro 1.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir with turbine house visible along a gentle river in the middle distance. Wind onshore 1.0 GW is represented by just two or three lonely three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors nearly still. Wind offshore 0.2 GW is a single tiny turbine silhouette on the far horizon line. The time is 14:00 on a hot summer day: full bright daylight but the sky is 93% covered by a high, milky-white overcast layer, with only narrow rifts letting shafts of direct sunlight through onto patches of the PV fields. The atmosphere is hazy and warm, 27°C, with lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, tall grass, and wildflowers. The air is completely still — no motion in foliage or flags. The price is zero, conveyed by an open, calm, undramatic sky without oppressive weight. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.