Solar provides 67% of generation at 34.9 GW; low wind and coal baseload keep prices above 100 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 67%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 10%
82%
Renewable share
3.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.9 GW
Solar
52.1 GW
Total generation
3.3 GW
Net import
102.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.0°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 427.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
130
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 34.9 GW dominates the entire foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German hills, catching diffuse light through overcast skies; brown coal 5.3 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the grey sky; biomass 3.6 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall smokestack and adjacent wood-chip storage yards in the centre-left middle ground; wind onshore 2.9 GW is rendered as a small group of three-blade turbines on lattice towers on a distant ridge to the right, blades turning slowly in light breeze; natural gas 2.0 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single polished exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer near the right-centre; hard coal 1.9 GW appears as a smaller power station with a single blocky cooling tower and coal conveyor to the far left; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small reservoir dam nestled in a valley at the far right edge. The time is 4 PM on a late August afternoon — full daylight but entirely overcast with a flat, heavy, oppressive blanket of uniform grey-white cloud at 100% cover, no blue sky visible; despite the overcast, moderate brightness illuminates the landscape diffusely with no sharp shadows. Temperature is a mild 21°C; vegetation is lush late-summer green with some early hints of drying grass. The atmosphere feels dense and slightly pressured, reflecting the high electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, saturated colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant elements — yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic curves, conveyor belt mechanisms. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.