Wind and diffuse solar dominate at 86% renewable share, pushing 14.7 GW net exports under full overcast.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 37%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 8%
86%
Renewable share
31.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.8 GW
Solar
74.9 GW
Total generation
+14.7 GW
Net export
50.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.7°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
99.0% / 48.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
101
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 26.6 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the composition as vast rolling farmland covered with dozens of three-blade wind turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in steady wind, stretching deep into the atmospheric haze; wind offshore 5.0 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines visible on the far horizon above a faintly suggested North Sea coastline. Solar 27.8 GW fills the centre-left foreground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled on metal racks across flat agricultural land, their surfaces reflecting the grey-white diffuse light of the heavy overcast — no direct sun, no shadows, but still producing under the bright, flat illumination of a fully clouded midday sky. Brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the low cloud ceiling, with conveyor belts and open-pit terracing faintly visible. Biomass 3.7 GW appears as a medium-sized industrial plant with cylindrical digesters and a modest smokestack near the coal complex. Natural gas 2.5 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, positioned between the coal towers and the solar fields. Hard coal 1.9 GW shows as a smaller power station with a rectangular boiler house and single cooling tower, partially obscured behind the brown coal complex. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small river weir and turbine house in the lower-left corner. The sky is uniformly overcast at 99% cloud cover — a thick, bright, pearl-grey blanket of stratus with no blue patches and no direct sunlight, yet brightly luminous as befits midday diffuse light in early September. The atmosphere is mildly oppressive and warm-humid at 18.7°C; vegetation is late-summer green, fields of stubble and mature crops between the solar arrays. Wind visibly animates the scene — grass bends, turbine blades blur slightly, steam plumes shear sideways. The mood is productive and industrious rather than dramatic. 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 impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels, no people prominently featured.