Wind and diffuse solar lead at 68.7% renewable share, but full overcast keeps coal and gas running to meet 60.6 GW demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 30%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 15%
69%
Renewable share
17.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.0 GW
Solar
59.2 GW
Total generation
1.4 GW
Net import
132.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.2°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 31.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
217
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.8 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky, surrounded by lignite conveyors and ash-grey spoil heaps. Natural gas 6.5 GW appears left-of-centre as a pair of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting faint heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.2 GW sits nearby as a smaller coal-fired station with a single squat chimney and coal stockyard. Wind onshore 11.7 GW spans the centre and right-centre as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers across rolling green summer farmland, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 5.8 GW is visible in the far right background as a row of turbines standing in a grey sea on the distant horizon. Solar 18.0 GW fills the right foreground and mid-ground as vast arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels stretching across flat agricultural fields, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey light—no sun glare, no shadows. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a wood-clad biomass plant with a modest smokestack near the centre, beside stacked timber and wood-chip piles. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small run-of-river station with a weir visible along a river in the middle distance. The sky is entirely overcast with a uniform heavy blanket of stratiform cloud in shades of pewter and dove grey, no blue visible anywhere, creating flat diffuse daylight at 08:00 in summer—full brightness but no directional sunlight, no shadows on the ground. The temperature is a cool 13°C for July; vegetation is lush deep green but damp and still, with morning dew on grass. The atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, and slightly hazy, reflecting the elevated energy price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelle housings, three-blade rotors with correct pitch, PV panel cell grids, cooling tower parabolic profiles with internal steam condensation visible. No text, no labels, no humans prominent.