Diffuse solar and strong wind dominate at 74% renewables, with coal and gas maintaining baseload under full overcast.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 25%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 33%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 9%
74%
Renewable share
19.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.6 GW
Solar
61.9 GW
Total generation
+3.9 GW
Net export
152.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.2°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
168
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.7 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind. Solar 20.6 GW occupies the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels under a uniformly overcast sky with no direct sunlight — panels reflecting only flat grey diffuse light. Natural gas 6.9 GW appears in the centre as a cluster of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with sleek single exhaust stacks emitting thin transparent heat shimmer. Brown coal 5.3 GW fills the left portion as massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with heavy white steam plumes drifting in the wind, adjacent to open-pit mine terraces. Wind offshore 4.1 GW is glimpsed in the far background as a line of turbines on the distant grey horizon where sea meets sky. Hard coal 3.6 GW sits beside the brown coal as a smaller power station with rectangular boiler buildings and a single smokestack. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a modest wood-clad industrial facility with a short exhaust stack and woodchip storage silos in the left-centre middle ground. Hydro 1.6 GW is a small concrete dam with spillway visible in a valley on the far right. Time is 10:00 AM full daylight but completely overcast — the sky is a heavy, oppressive uniform grey-white ceiling with no blue patches and no sun disk visible, creating flat diffused illumination. The atmosphere feels dense, humid, slightly hazy — conveying high electricity price tension through the brooding weight of the clouds pressing down on the landscape. Vegetation is lush high-summer green — tall grasses, mature deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers. Temperature is mild at 18°C, no heat haze. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic tonal contrasts between the industrial structures and natural landscape, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower ribbing, every PV panel cell pattern. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.