Solar leads at 38.4 GW under overcast skies; coal and gas hold firm, driving 8.7 GW net exports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 57%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 11%
74%
Renewable share
6.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.4 GW
Solar
67.0 GW
Total generation
+8.6 GW
Net export
91.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.5°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
79.0% / 163.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
182
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.4 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-grey surfaces catching diffuse light; brown coal 7.5 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes drifting eastward; hard coal 5.1 GW sits just left of centre as a blocky power station with tall chimneys and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; natural gas 4.5 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT units with slender single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; wind onshore 5.1 GW is rendered as a line of fifteen three-blade turbines on gentle hills behind the solar fields, blades turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 1.3 GW is suggested by a few distant turbines on the hazy horizon line; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip plant with a modest smokestack and timber yard near the coal complex; hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with churning white water in the foreground stream. The sky is early-September afternoon at 14:00 in central Germany — full daylight but heavily overcast at 79% cloud cover, a bright but flat silvery-white sky with occasional thin breaks revealing pale blue, the sun's disc barely discernible behind cloud layers, casting soft diffuse shadows. The atmosphere feels slightly heavy and oppressive, reflecting 91.8 EUR/MWh pricing — a warm humidity hangs over the landscape. Vegetation is late-summer green beginning to tire, with some fields showing golden stubble, temperature around 17.5°C suggesting mild air. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich colour palette, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve and concrete texture, every coal conveyor mechanism. The painting balances industrial grandeur with pastoral landscape, no text, no labels.