Overcast skies zero out solar; coal, biomass, and wind carry Germany's grid at elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 21%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 19%
Brown coal 16%
59%
Renewable share
6.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
18.8 GW
Total generation
+18.8 GW
Net export
162.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.1°C / 18 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
307
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Biomass 3.9 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of wood-chip-fed power stations with short industrial stacks and wisps of pale steam; wind onshore 3.9 GW fills the left-centre as rows of modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers set across rolling green hills; hard coal 3.6 GW appears right of centre as a large coal-fired plant with tall rectangular boiler houses, conveyor belts, and dark smoke stacks; brown coal 3.1 GW stands prominently as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast; wind offshore 2.1 GW is suggested in the distant right background as faint turbine silhouettes on a grey North Sea horizon; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway in the right foreground valley; natural gas 1.1 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single gleaming exhaust stack near the dam. The sky is entirely covered by a uniform, heavy, oppressive blanket of low stratus clouds at 100% cover — no blue, no sun, a flat pearl-grey ceiling pressing down on the landscape. Lighting is diffuse August-morning daylight at 08:00, bright enough to illuminate everything evenly but with no shadows and no direct sunlight. Temperature is mild at 16°C; vegetation is late-summer green but subdued under the grey light — tall grasses, deciduous trees with full dark-green canopies. A moderate breeze visibly bends grasses and drives the turbine blades. The atmosphere feels heavy and expensive, with a faintly industrial haze hanging at mid-altitude. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, layered colour with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth receding into misty grey distance, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.