Diffuse solar leads at 27.1 GW under full overcast, with 15.7 GW wind and 15.3 GW thermal supporting 9.1 GW net export.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 43%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 11%
76%
Renewable share
15.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.1 GW
Solar
63.2 GW
Total generation
+9.1 GW
Net export
104.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.7°C / 24 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 71.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
169
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 27.1 GW dominates the foreground and middle distance as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land, their surfaces reflecting pale diffuse light; wind onshore 12.7 GW fills the right third of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning briskly in moderate wind; brown coal 6.7 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky; natural gas 4.8 GW appears as two compact CCGT power stations with slim exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer, positioned left of centre; hard coal 3.8 GW is rendered as a single large conventional power station with a tall chimney and coal conveyor visible beside it, near the brown coal complex; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a modest wood-clad biomass plant with a rounded silo and low steam vent at centre-left; wind offshore 3.0 GW is suggested on the far-right horizon as faint turbine silhouettes standing in a silver strip of distant sea; hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam and penstock structure nestled in gentle hills at far left. The sky is entirely overcast with heavy, layered stratocumulus in tones of pewter and warm grey, oppressive and dense, consistent with 100% cloud cover and an elevated electricity price — no blue sky visible, yet full diffuse daylight illuminates the scene evenly from above as befits 14:00 in summer. The temperature of 23.7 °C in late August shapes the vegetation: mature green deciduous trees with the first faint yellowing, tall grass, ripe wheat stubble. The atmosphere feels humid and heavy. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic profile is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.