Strong onshore wind and diffuse solar dominate under full overcast, driving 10.6 GW net export.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 47%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 26%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
36.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.5 GW
Solar
67.0 GW
Total generation
+10.6 GW
Net export
61.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.0°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 12.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
81
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 31.7 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills from the centre to the far right horizon, their rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind. Wind offshore 5.2 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines rising from a grey-steel sea glimpsed through a gap in the hills at the far right. Solar 17.5 GW occupies the centre-left foreground as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled on metal racks across flat farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting the pale, flat light of a fully overcast sky — no sun visible, no shadows. Brown coal 4.3 GW fills the left portion as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting in the breeze, adjacent to a large industrial complex with conveyor belts and coal bunkers. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized plant with a squat cylindrical digester, timber storage yard, and a single modest stack emitting thin vapour, positioned just right of the cooling towers. Natural gas 2.2 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a tall single exhaust stack and visible air intake housings, placed between the biomass plant and the solar fields. Hard coal 1.1 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular boiler house and chimney, tucked behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible in a river flowing through the foreground. The sky is entirely covered by a thick, uniform layer of grey stratus cloud at 100% coverage — no blue sky, no sun disk — producing soft diffuse daylight consistent with 16:00 in early September. Vegetation is late-summer green, slightly fading toward autumn tones. The atmosphere is mildly heavy and close but not dramatic, reflecting a moderate electricity price. The overall style is a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower hyperbolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.