Solar leads at 32.3 GW under overcast skies; lignite and coal provide 12.9 GW baseload; 3.0 GW net export.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 55%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 14%
74%
Renewable share
7.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.3 GW
Solar
59.1 GW
Total generation
+3.0 GW
Net export
146.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.4°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 211.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
192
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 32.3 GW dominates the centre and right of the scene as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, reflecting diffuse white light under a fully overcast sky. Brown coal 8.2 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the grey canopy. Hard coal 4.7 GW appears just right of the lignite plant as a smaller coal-fired station with tall rectangular boiler houses and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel. Wind onshore 5.4 GW is rendered as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the mid-ground, rotors turning slowly in light breeze. Natural gas 2.2 GW sits as a compact CCGT facility with a single polished exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer near the left-centre. Biomass 3.5 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip plant with a conical fuel silo and thin wisp of smoke in the right background. Wind offshore 1.6 GW is suggested by distant turbines on the far horizon line. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white churning water in the near foreground at the bottom of the frame. The sky is a heavy, oppressive ceiling of unbroken pearl-grey stratus reflecting the high electricity price, with no blue visible; the light is flat midday September daylight diffused through cloud. Vegetation is late-summer green with hints of early yellowing at leaf edges, temperature mild at 20°C. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, dramatic industrial sublime — with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower flute, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.