Wind leads at 21.4 GW under full overcast, with brown coal and gas providing 14.3 GW of thermal support at elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 27%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 15%
71%
Renewable share
21.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
16.5 GW
Solar
61.0 GW
Total generation
+3.6 GW
Net export
160.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.2°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 9.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
205
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills into the misty distance; wind offshore 5.2 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey North Sea sliver. Brown coal 9.1 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers issuing thick white steam plumes into the heavy sky. Natural gas 5.2 GW sits center-left as a compact CCGT facility with two tall exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling tower. Hard coal 3.3 GW appears just left of center as a smaller coal plant with a conveyor belt and a single squat smokestack. Solar 16.5 GW fills the center-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels reflecting only dull grey light—no sunshine, no glint—under complete cloud cover. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-fired plant with a rounded silo and modest chimney. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river station with a weir visible at the edge of a dark, flat river in the left foreground. The sky is entirely overcast at 08:00 in late August—full diffuse daylight but no sun visible, a uniform heavy grey-white ceiling pressing down oppressively to convey the high electricity price. Temperature is a cool 14 °C; vegetation is lush late-summer green but subdued, with no warm tones. Wind speed is low at ground level—only the elevated turbine blades turn slowly. The atmosphere is thick, humid, and weighty. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich, moody colour palette of greys, slate blues, muted greens, and industrial whites; visible impasto brushwork; deep atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant elements; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower curvature, and smokestack. No text, no labels.