Wind leads at 15.3 GW but full overcast limits solar; brown coal and 13.6 GW net imports fill the gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 20%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 19%
63%
Renewable share
15.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.4 GW
Solar
46.8 GW
Total generation
13.6 GW
Net import
212.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.8°C / 14 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
261
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.1 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers stretching across rolling green farmland, blades turning steadily in moderate wind. Wind offshore 3.2 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of turbines rising from a grey North Sea horizon. Brown coal 8.7 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes against the grey sky, alongside conveyor belts carrying dark brown fuel. Natural gas 5.2 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.3 GW appears behind the gas units as a smaller coal plant with a rectangular stack and coal storage yard. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered centre-right as a modest wood-chip-fed power station with cylindrical silos and a low stack. Solar 9.4 GW fills the centre foreground as a large field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels — but they are dull and unreflective under the completely overcast sky, receiving only diffuse grey light. Hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low dam visible along a river in the mid-ground. The sky is entirely blanketed in thick, low, oppressive stratus clouds with no break or blue, creating a heavy, brooding atmosphere consistent with a 212 EUR/MWh price. The lighting is soft, flat, early-morning daylight at 08:00 in September — fully diffuse, no shadows, no direct sunlight, a cold grey-white luminosity. Vegetation is late-summer green beginning to show the faintest autumnal yellowing at leaf edges, temperature about 14 °C. The overall mood is weighty and industrial. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with misty horizons, careful engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and panel frame. No text, no labels.