Full overcast limits solar output; brown coal, wind, and gas share the load as Germany imports 8.5 GW.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 25%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 19%
60%
Renewable share
12.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
12.6 GW
Solar
50.5 GW
Total generation
8.5 GW
Net import
193.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.1°C / 5 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
285
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.5 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers belching thick white steam into a grey sky; hard coal 5.0 GW sits just right of centre-left as a pair of dark-bricked coal plants with tall chimneys trailing haze; natural gas 5.8 GW occupies the centre as two compact CCGT units with gleaming steel exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer; wind onshore 9.1 GW stretches across the right third as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers across rolling green hills, rotors turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 3.1 GW is visible in the far-right background as a line of turbines on the hazy horizon over a grey North Sea inlet; solar 12.6 GW appears as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels blanketing gentle farmland in the right-centre foreground, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey sky with no glint of direct sun; biomass 4.1 GW shows as a cluster of modest wood-chip-fired plants with squat silos and thin smoke plumes nestled among trees at mid-ground left; hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river station with a weir and penstock visible along a river in the lower foreground. The lighting is full mid-morning daylight — 08:00 in late August — but entirely diffuse: the sky is a uniform blanket of 100% stratus cloud from horizon to horizon, no blue patches, no sun disc, casting flat shadowless light. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, hinting at the high electricity price — a thick humid haze hangs in the valleys, muting colours. Vegetation is lush late-summer green, with some fields of golden stubble after harvest. The overall composition is a sweeping panoramic German industrial-pastoral landscape rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic masters — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into misty distance — yet every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower fluting, every PV cell grid line is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.