Overcast skies limit solar output; coal, gas, and ~15 GW net imports fill the gap at high prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 36%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 12%
64%
Renewable share
7.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
16.0 GW
Solar
44.1 GW
Total generation
15.0 GW
Net import
152.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.1°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
239
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 16.0 GW dominates the right half of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their surfaces grey-blue under diffuse light, no sun visible; brown coal 5.2 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the overcast sky, with conveyor belts of dark lignite visible at their base; natural gas 6.2 GW appears left-of-centre as a pair of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls, thin heat shimmer rising from their vents; hard coal 4.3 GW sits behind them as a traditional power station with a large chimney and coal bunkers; wind onshore 6.2 GW is rendered as a line of tall three-blade turbines on a ridge in the middle distance, rotors turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 0.9 GW appears as tiny turbine silhouettes barely visible on the far horizon; biomass 3.9 GW is a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a small smoking stack near the centre-right; hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river weir with turbine house nestled in a valley at bottom-centre. The sky is a uniform, heavy, oppressive blanket of solid grey stratus cloud at 100% cover, no blue patches, no sun disc, creating flat diffuse daylight consistent with mid-morning in August. The atmosphere feels dense and heavy, reflecting the 152.4 EUR/MWh price — a brooding, weighty stillness. Temperature is a cool 14°C for August: the vegetation is full summer green but muted, damp-looking grass and dark deciduous trees with heavy foliage, no warmth haze. Light wind barely stirs the leaves. Power transmission lines on lattice steel pylons cross the scene, symbolising the large import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, muted palette of greys, blue-greens, and warm industrial ochres, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and panel frame, evoking Caspar David Friedrich's moody grandeur merged with industrial realism. No text, no labels.