Overcast skies limit solar to 17 GW; brown coal and gas fill the gap as Germany imports 17 GW.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 38%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 20%
58%
Renewable share
3.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.2 GW
Solar
45.3 GW
Total generation
17.2 GW
Net import
145.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.1°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
97.0% / 27.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
294
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.1 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes into the overcast sky; hard coal 4.1 GW appears just right of centre-left as two smaller cooling towers beside a coal bunker with conveyor belts; natural gas 5.7 GW occupies the centre as a modern combined-cycle gas turbine plant with twin slender exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls with heat-recovery steam generators; solar 17.2 GW spans the entire right third and middle distance as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land, their glass surfaces reflecting dull grey light under heavy clouds; wind onshore 3.1 GW appears as a scattered row of eight three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a low ridge in the far background, blades turning slowly; wind offshore 0.5 GW is suggested by two distant turbines barely visible on the far horizon; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a single smokestack and timber storage yard near the coal complex; hydro 1.8 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse on a river in the foreground. The sky is fully overcast at 97% cloud cover—a uniform, heavy, oppressive blanket of stratocumulus in shades of slate grey and pewter, pressing down on the landscape, no blue visible, diffuse flat daylight of a 09:00 summer morning with no shadows. The atmosphere feels heavy and costly, hinting at the 145.7 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is a mild 18°C; vegetation is lush midsummer green—tall grasses, mature deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers along field edges. A wide river in the foreground reflects the grey sky. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich layered colour, visible textured brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant cooling towers—but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower shell, and gas-turbine exhaust stack. No text, no labels.