Strong onshore wind and diffuse solar under full overcast drive 81% renewables, with brown coal providing 6.3 GW baseload.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 25%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 10%
81%
Renewable share
29.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
15.6 GW
Solar
62.3 GW
Total generation
+1.4 GW
Net export
114.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.7°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 6.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
134
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 23.7 GW dominates the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills from the centre to the right, blades visibly turning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 5.6 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on the far-right horizon over a grey North Sea sliver. Solar 15.6 GW occupies the lower-centre foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels reflecting only the flat pewter light of a totally overcast sky — no sun visible, no highlights, just diffuse grey illumination. Brown coal 6.3 GW fills the left portion as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy cloud ceiling, with conveyor belts of dark lignite visible at their base. Natural gas 4.4 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with slim silver exhaust stacks and a smaller vapour trail. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a modest industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack near the coal complex. Hard coal 1.3 GW is a smaller conventional plant with a squat chimney behind the gas facility. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir nestled in a valley at the far left. The sky is entirely blanketed in uniform, heavy, low stratus clouds — no blue, no sun disc — casting flat, shadowless daylight across a lush green July landscape at 08:00. The atmosphere feels dense and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price. Summer vegetation is full and verdant — deciduous trees in deep green leaf, wildflowers in meadows, crops growing tall. Temperature is mild at 17.7°C, no heat haze. Painted in the style of a monumental 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated greens and greys, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth receding into misty industrial horizons, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower ribbing, every panel frame — a grand industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels.