Solar at 39.4 GW and wind at 21.6 GW dominate, with 17.7 GW of thermal backup sustaining a 136 EUR/MWh price.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 47%
Biomass 4%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 8%
79%
Renewable share
21.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
39.4 GW
Solar
83.4 GW
Total generation
+83.4 GW
Net export
136.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.1°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
92.0% / 53.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
145
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 39.4 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling farmland under diffuse overcast daylight; wind onshore 18.9 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers dotting the ridgelines behind the solar fields, blades turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 2.7 GW is visible as a distant cluster of turbines on the hazy horizon beyond a grey North Sea inlet at the far right; brown coal 6.4 GW occupies the left background as a pair of massive lignite power stations with hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes merging with the heavy cloud layer; hard coal 5.0 GW sits beside them as a single large plant with tall chimneys and conveyor gantries feeding dark fuel into boiler houses; natural gas 6.3 GW appears as compact CCGT units with slim single exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails in the centre-left middle ground; biomass 3.5 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fuelled plant with a low smokestack near a timber yard at left foreground; hydro 1.2 GW shows as a small run-of-river weir with a concrete powerhouse nestled along a stream in the lower foreground. The sky is 92% overcast — a heavy, oppressive blanket of stratocumulus in grey and pewter tones pressing down, only thin patches of bright diffuse light filtering through, consistent with 53 W/m² direct radiation; the daylight is fully present but flat and muted, casting soft shadowless illumination across the landscape. Temperature 15°C and early September give the vegetation a late-summer character: green fields just beginning to hint at autumn gold, birch and linden trees still leafy but subtly fading. The atmosphere feels weighty, dense, heavy — reflecting high electricity prices. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with sfumato haze around the distant cooling towers, dramatic chiaroscuro where light breaks through cloud. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine blade profiles, PV module grid lines, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT heat-recovery steam generators. No text, no labels, no people in the foreground — only the vast industrial-pastoral landscape breathing under its grey September sky.