Solar dominates at 42.6 GW under overcast skies; 18.3 GW net export despite elevated prices at 198 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 54%
Biomass 4%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 12%
81%
Renewable share
16.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
42.6 GW
Solar
78.5 GW
Total generation
+18.3 GW
Net export
198.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.6°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 18.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
144
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 42.6 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland in the centre and right of the composition, covering more than half the visual area, their glass surfaces reflecting a dull grey-white overcast sky. Brown coal 9.3 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the low cloud ceiling, alongside conveyor belts feeding lignite from open pits. Wind onshore 15.4 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice-reinforced tubular towers scattered across ridgelines in the middle distance, blades rotating at moderate speed in the 15 km/h breeze. Hard coal 3.7 GW is rendered as a dark industrial power station with tall square stacks and coal bunkers positioned behind the lignite complex, smaller in visual proportion. Biomass 3.5 GW shows as a modest wood-clad combined heat and power facility with a single smokestack emitting thin vapour, nestled among trees at the right edge. Natural gas 1.9 GW appears as a compact modern CCGT plant with a single sleek exhaust stack and minimal emissions, placed beside the biomass unit. Wind offshore 1.4 GW is visible as a faint row of turbines on the far horizon line. Hydro 0.8 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir glimpsed in a valley at the far right. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a flat, heavy, oppressive pewter-grey ceiling with no blue patches and no direct sunlight, only diffuse white-grey morning illumination consistent with 08:00 in September. The atmosphere feels dense and pressured, reflecting the anomalously high electricity price. Temperature is a cool 14.6°C; early-autumn vegetation shows the first subtle yellowing at leaf edges on birch and linden trees. Distant high-voltage transmission pylons and cables recede into the hazy background, suggesting massive power flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — combined with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology. No text, no labels.