Solar leads at 30 GW under full overcast, with 24 GW of thermal backup keeping prices elevated at 178 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 45%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 18%
64%
Renewable share
7.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.0 GW
Solar
66.9 GW
Total generation
+6.7 GW
Net export
178.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.6°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 89.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
256
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 30.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as an immense field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their surfaces reflecting a flat white-grey sky. Brown coal 12.2 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes that merge with the overcast ceiling. Natural gas 7.0 GW appears left of centre as two compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 5.0 GW stands behind them as a smaller coal plant with rectangular mechanical-draft cooling towers and a conveyor belt feeding dark fuel. Wind onshore 3.8 GW shows as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on low hills in the mid-ground, rotors turning slowly. Wind offshore 3.9 GW is suggested by distant turbines visible through haze on a far-off grey sea horizon at the far right. Biomass 3.9 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a green-roofed facility and small smokestack near the centre. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a powerhouse tucked into a river valley in the foreground. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, uniformly pale grey-white, oppressive and heavy, pressing down on the landscape — consistent with 178 EUR/MWh high price atmosphere. Lighting is diffuse full-daylight at 10:00 Berlin time with no shadows and no direct sun, September morning. Temperature 11.6°C: vegetation is late-summer green beginning to turn, damp grass, a few early yellowing leaves on birch trees. Wind is light, barely ruffling grass. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric grandeur meeting industrial realism — rich muted earth tones, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower curve, every panel frame. No text, no labels.