Strong onshore wind and diffuse solar lead generation under full overcast, with 9.3 GW net imports filling the gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 42%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 31%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 7%
89%
Renewable share
23.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
15.3 GW
Solar
49.7 GW
Total generation
9.4 GW
Net import
97.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.7°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 14.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
82
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 21.1 GW dominates the right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles, their blades slowly rotating in light wind, stretching across rolling green summer hills; solar 15.3 GW occupies the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels reflecting a flat grey sky with no direct sunlight; biomass 3.8 GW appears in the centre-left as a cluster of medium-scale biomass plants with timber fuel yards and low exhaust stacks with pale steam; brown coal 3.3 GW sits at the far left as two large hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; wind offshore 2.7 GW is visible on the distant horizon as a faint row of turbines at sea; natural gas 1.6 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer near the left-centre; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small concrete dam and powerhouse nestled in a valley in the far background; hard coal 0.8 GW is a single dark smokestack facility partially obscured beside the brown coal towers. TIME AND ATMOSPHERE: 18:00 dusk in late July — the sky is entirely covered by heavy, low, oppressive grey clouds with no breaks, a faint warm orange-amber glow barely visible at the western horizon beneath the cloud deck, the upper sky darkening toward slate grey. The air feels humid and close, reflecting the 97.3 EUR/MWh price tension. Lush green summer vegetation — full deciduous trees, tall grass — at 19.7°C, leaves barely stirring in 9 km/h wind. No direct sunlight anywhere; all illumination is soft, diffuse, and flat. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, moody colour palette of grey-greens, slate blues, and muted amber; visible confident brushwork with impasto highlights on the cooling tower steam and turbine blades; atmospheric depth created through layered aerial perspective with distant turbines fading into haze; meticulous engineering accuracy in every technology element — lattice tower foundations, rotor blade pitch angles, panel wiring, concrete cooling tower ribbing. The composition conveys the vast industrial-pastoral scale of the modern energy landscape as a sublime panorama. No text, no labels, no human figures.