Solar at 43.8 GW leads under full overcast; lignite, gas, and coal provide 15.2 GW of thermal backup with minimal wind.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 66%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 11%
77%
Renewable share
1.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
43.8 GW
Solar
65.8 GW
Total generation
+4.7 GW
Net export
99.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.5°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
99.0% / 66.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
162
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 43.8 GW dominates the foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, their surfaces reflecting a flat, diffuse white-grey light. Brown coal 7.3 GW occupies the left portion of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge with the overcast sky, adjacent to conveyor belts feeding lignite. Natural gas 4.7 GW appears center-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with slim exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.2 GW sits behind the gas plants as a single large stack and coal bunker building. Biomass 4.0 GW is visible center-right as a wood-chip-fed combined heat and power plant with a squat chimney and stored timber rounds. Wind onshore 1.3 GW appears as a handful of tall three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small concrete run-of-river weir on a stream in the mid-ground. Wind offshore 0.2 GW is merely hinted at as tiny turbine silhouettes on the far horizon line. The sky is entirely blanketed by a 99% overcast layer — heavy, uniform, warm-grey cloud pressing low — with full July daytime brightness (10:00 local) producing a bright but completely shadowless diffuse illumination. The atmosphere feels oppressive and heavy, reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is mild at 16.5°C; vegetation is lush midsummer green — tall grasses, hedgerows, mature lindens — but no flowers are sunlit. No wind stirs the trees. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, careful chiaroscuro in the industrial steam, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve — a grand landscape where industry and nature coexist under an unyielding grey firmament. No text, no labels.