Overcast diffuse solar leads at 17 GW; brown coal and wind support as 7 GW net imports fill the gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 45%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 14%
78%
Renewable share
7.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.0 GW
Solar
38.0 GW
Total generation
7.0 GW
Net import
93.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.8°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 69.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
162
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 17.0 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their surfaces reflecting a flat grey-white sky — no direct sunlight, only diffuse overcast glow. Wind onshore 6.8 GW occupies the right background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning slowly in light wind. Brown coal 5.2 GW fills the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the low cloud ceiling, beside a conveyor belt feeding lignite into a large power station. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with wood-chip silos and a modest smokestack. Natural gas 1.9 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, placed between the coal plant and the solar fields. Hard coal 1.3 GW is a smaller power station with a single cooling tower and coal stockpile near the lignite complex. Hydro 0.9 GW is a concrete run-of-river dam visible along a river in the middle distance. Wind offshore 0.8 GW appears as a faint line of turbines on a distant hazy horizon suggesting the North Sea. The sky is 100% overcast — a uniform, heavy, oppressive blanket of stratiform cloud in slate grey and muted cream tones, pressing down on the landscape, consistent with the elevated 93.8 EUR/MWh price. Lighting is full summer-morning daylight at 08:00, but entirely diffuse with no shadows — soft, flat illumination. Temperature 16.8 °C: lush green summer vegetation, meadow grasses, deciduous trees in full leaf but with a cool dampness in the air. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, slightly brooding. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — with rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.