Solar leads at 32.6 GW under full overcast, wind adds 15.7 GW, and 12 GW of coal underpins a 7.8 GW net export position.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 48%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 13%
78%
Renewable share
15.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.6 GW
Solar
68.3 GW
Total generation
+7.8 GW
Net export
102.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.4°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 59.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
161
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 32.6 GW dominates the foreground and middle distance as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their dark blue surfaces reflecting only a dull pewter sky; wind onshore 12.6 GW fills the right third of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers turning briskly in moderate wind across green summer fields; wind offshore 3.1 GW appears at the far right horizon as a faint cluster of turbines rising from a grey North Sea sliver; brown coal 8.7 GW occupies the left background as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast; hard coal 3.3 GW sits beside it as a smaller coal plant with a tall brick chimney and conveyor belts; natural gas 2.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single slim exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-ground cluster of cylindrical digesters with green-painted domes and small exhaust flues; hydro 1.2 GW is a distant dam with a thin ribbon of white water visible in a wooded valley. Time is 10:00 AM in full July daylight, but the sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — flat, heavy, unbroken grey-white clouds pressing low, no direct sunlight, diffuse illumination casting soft even shadows. Temperature is a cool 15°C for July so the vegetation is lush deep green but the air feels damp and heavy. Wind at 21.6 km/h animates the turbine blades, bends tall grasses, and tilts the steam plumes from the cooling towers. The atmosphere feels oppressive and weighted, reflecting a high electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich earth tones, mossy greens, steel greys, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the cloud layer — but with meticulous modern engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. The scene is a grand panoramic industrial landscape, luminous yet brooding, no text, no labels.