Solar leads at 33.7 GW under full overcast; lignite, gas, and coal hold firm as light winds limit turbine output.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 47%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 16%
65%
Renewable share
7.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.7 GW
Solar
71.3 GW
Total generation
+9.3 GW
Net export
146.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.2°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 8.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
245
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 33.7 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling farmland under flat diffuse daylight, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting the uniform white-grey overcast sky. Brown coal 11.4 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station complex with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the low cloud ceiling. Natural gas 8.0 GW appears as a pair of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with slender exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls in the left-centre, thin heat shimmer rising from their vents. Hard coal 5.6 GW sits behind them as a single large conventional power station with a tall rectangular boiler house and a single wide chimney trailing grey exhaust. Wind onshore 6.1 GW is rendered as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on distant hills at the right edge, their rotors turning slowly in the feeble breeze. Wind offshore 1.5 GW appears as a faint cluster of turbines on the far horizon, barely visible through atmospheric haze. Biomass 3.8 GW is a modest wood-fired plant with a cylindrical silo and low stack near the coal station. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and reservoir nestled in a forested valley in the far background. The sky is entirely overcast — a heavy, oppressive, uniform blanket of white-grey stratus with no blue visible anywhere, pressing down on the landscape and creating a claustrophobic atmosphere reflecting the high electricity price. The lighting is bright but completely diffuse, shadowless mid-morning daylight filtered through thick cloud. Vegetation shows early autumn character: fields of stubble, trees with leaves just beginning to turn gold and russet at the edges, grass still green but fading. The temperature reads cool — figures wear light jackets. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth achieved through careful tonal gradation from warm foreground browns to cool blue-grey distances, meticulous engineering accuracy in every nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower curve, evoking Caspar David Friedrich's sense of human smallness against vast landscape but populated with the monumental infrastructure of modern energy. No text, no labels.