Overcast morning: solar and wind lead at 62% renewable share, but coal and gas firm the balance amid 3 GW net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 26%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 17%
62%
Renewable share
14.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.0 GW
Solar
54.2 GW
Total generation
3.0 GW
Net import
171.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.7°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 38.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
265
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.4 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into heavy overcast; hard coal 5.0 GW sits just right of centre-left as a dark industrial complex with tall rectangular stacks and conveyor belts feeding raw coal; natural gas 6.0 GW occupies the centre as three compact CCGT plants with slender single exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour; solar 14.0 GW stretches across the right third as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels on rolling terrain, their surfaces dull grey-blue under diffuse light with no direct sun reflections; wind onshore 12.3 GW fills the far right and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning gently in moderate breeze; wind offshore 2.2 GW appears as a faint row of turbines on a distant grey horizon line suggesting the North Sea; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fired plant with a modest stack and timber storage yard; hydro 1.2 GW is a small run-of-river weir in the foreground with water flowing over a concrete spillway. Time is 08:00 full daylight but entirely overcast — the sky is a uniform heavy blanket of grey-white stratus clouds at 100% cover, no blue sky visible, flat diffuse illumination with no shadows, lending an oppressive atmospheric weight reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is a cool 12.7 °C for late August; vegetation is late-summer green but muted, some early hints of yellowing in grass. The landscape is a broad German lowland plain with gentle hills. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich but restrained colour palette of greys, slate blues, olive greens, and industrial ochres; visible impasto brushwork in the cloud mass and steam plumes; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's reinforced concrete ribs; atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant wind farms. No text, no labels.