Overcast skies limit solar while strong onshore wind and lignite baseload jointly balance 53 GW of German demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 35%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 13%
76%
Renewable share
17.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.9 GW
Solar
54.4 GW
Total generation
+1.1 GW
Net export
119.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.0°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 37.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
173
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 18.9 GW occupies the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching toward a flat horizon, their surfaces dull grey under the overcast sky, reflecting no sunlight. Wind onshore 14.5 GW dominates the centre as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles, rotors spinning visibly in the moderate breeze across rolling green late-summer farmland. Wind offshore 2.9 GW appears in the far background as a cluster of turbines standing in a hazy grey sea glimpsed between low hills. Brown coal 6.9 GW anchors the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast ceiling. Hard coal 3.2 GW sits behind it as a smaller station with rectangular boiler houses and a tall brick chimney trailing grey smoke. Natural gas 2.8 GW appears as a compact modern CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack and minimal visible emissions, positioned just left of centre. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with stacked timber logs and wood-chip conveyors beside a modest chimney producing faint off-white exhaust. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse nestled along a green-banked stream in the middle distance. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover—a uniform blanket of heavy, warm grey stratocumulus with no blue patches—yet fully daylit at 16:00, creating a bright but diffuse, shadowless illumination across the landscape. Direct solar irradiance is negligible, so no sun disk or sun glow appears. The air feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the elevated electricity price, with a slight yellowish-grey haze near the thermal plants. Vegetation is lush late-summer green, trees full-canopied with first hints of drying grass in the fields. The wind at 18 km/h bends tall grasses and makes leaves flutter. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective—rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for each technology. No text, no labels.