Solar leads at 26.8 GW despite full overcast; wind adds 12.1 GW; coal and gas fill the residual gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 45%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 13%
73%
Renewable share
12.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.8 GW
Solar
60.0 GW
Total generation
1.3 GW
Net import
145.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.7°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 28.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
192
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 26.8 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling farmland, their surfaces reflecting a flat grey-white sky; brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge with the overcast, with conveyor belts carrying lignite visible at their base; wind onshore 8.5 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers scattered across ridgelines behind the solar fields, blades turning steadily in moderate wind; natural gas 4.9 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT power stations with slender exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer, placed in the left-centre middle ground; hard coal 3.5 GW shows as a traditional coal plant with a single large smokestack and boiler house, positioned adjacent to the lignite complex; wind offshore 3.6 GW is suggested on the distant horizon as a faint row of turbines standing in a grey North Sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a rounded silo and small chimney near the centre-left; hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible along a river in the foreground. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform heavy grey ceiling with no blue, no sun disk, only diffuse daylight consistent with 10:00 morning — casting soft shadowless illumination across the scene. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high 145 EUR/MWh price. Vegetation is late-summer green beginning to show the first hints of early autumn yellowing. Temperature is mild at 15.7°C — no frost, light jackets weather. Style: 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, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic yet contemplative mood — but with meticulous modern engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV panel's grid lines. No text, no labels, no human figures.