Brown coal and gas dominate domestic supply as full overcast suppresses solar and light winds limit turbines.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 17%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 26%
44%
Renewable share
3.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
5.9 GW
Solar
34.6 GW
Total generation
24.6 GW
Net import
203.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.3°C / 8 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
393
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.1 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive complex of four hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast, surrounded by conveyor belts carrying dark lignite; natural gas 6.2 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks trailing thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.1 GW appears behind them as a smaller plant with a single large stack and coal stockpile; solar 5.9 GW occupies the centre-right as extensive rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels stretching across flat fields, their surfaces dull and reflectionless under the grey sky; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a cluster of wood-chip-fed facilities with cylindrical silos and modest chimneys with faint smoke; wind onshore 3.2 GW appears as a sparse line of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the still air; hydro 1.8 GW is suggested by a concrete dam and reservoir in the far background valley; wind offshore 0.4 GW is a faint silhouette of two turbines on the distant horizon line. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform heavy ceiling of stratiform cloud in shades of pewter, slate, and ash, pressing down oppressively with no break or brightness, conveying the high electricity price tension. The time is 07:00 dawn in early July: a pale, diffuse pre-dawn luminosity seeps through the cloud layer from the east, casting everything in flat blue-grey light with no shadows and no visible sun disc. The landscape is central German: gently rolling green farmland in full summer foliage — lush deciduous trees, tall grass, wildflowers — at 17°C with no wind motion in the vegetation. Transmission pylons and high-voltage lines stretch across the middle ground connecting the facilities. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour despite the grey atmosphere, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with haze softening the distant elements, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, panel frame, and exhaust stack. The mood is heavy, industrial, quietly monumental. No text, no labels.