Wind and diffuse solar lead at 70.9% renewables, but overcast skies and tight margins keep brown coal and imports active.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 26%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 17%
71%
Renewable share
13.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
11.2 GW
Solar
42.8 GW
Total generation
2.0 GW
Net import
128.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.3°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 4.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
214
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.4 GW dominates the left quarter as a massive lignite power station complex with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the grey sky; solar 11.2 GW occupies the centre-left as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey light under total overcast; wind onshore 9.0 GW fills the centre-right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning slowly in light breeze across rolling green hills; wind offshore 4.5 GW appears in the far right background as a row of offshore turbines visible on a grey, calm North Sea horizon; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a tall stack and wood-chip storage silos near the coal plant; natural gas 2.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer beside the lignite complex; hard coal 2.4 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a single square cooling tower and conveyor belt visible behind the gas plant; hydro 1.6 GW is a small concrete dam and powerhouse nestled in a forested valley in the far background. The sky is entirely covered by a thick, oppressive, low uniform stratocumulus layer — no sun visible, no blue sky, no shadows on the ground — creating a heavy, brooding atmosphere consistent with 128 EUR/MWh pricing pressure. Full diffuse daylight of a mid-morning hour illuminates the scene evenly without contrast. August vegetation is lush deep green but muted under the flat light; temperature of 14°C gives a cool dampness, with light mist clinging to valley floors. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich earthy and grey-green colour palette, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower rib, every PV panel frame — a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.