Solar leads at 21.1 GW under overcast skies, but 8.1 GW net imports needed as brown coal and wind fall short of demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 44%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 20%
68%
Renewable share
6.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.1 GW
Solar
47.5 GW
Total generation
8.1 GW
Net import
181.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.1°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
76.0% / 96.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
244
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 21.1 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle rolling hills under hazy, diffuse afternoon daylight filtered through 76% cloud cover. Brown coal 9.4 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, with conveyor belts feeding lignite into brutalist power station buildings. Wind onshore 5.5 GW appears as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers along a mid-ground ridge, blades turning slowly in light wind. Hard coal 3.6 GW sits as a dark industrial complex with tall chimneys and coal stockpiles adjacent to the lignite plant. Biomass 3.5 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad CHP facility with a short stack and timber storage yard in the middle ground. Natural gas 2.4 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a single gleaming exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley in the far background. Wind offshore 1.0 GW is faintly visible as distant turbines on the hazy horizon line. The sky is heavy and oppressive, layered grey-white clouds pressing down, with occasional shafts of weak golden sunlight breaking through gaps, reflecting off the PV glass. Late summer vegetation — green but beginning to show faint yellowing at edges, temperature around 22°C, warm and humid atmosphere. The air feels thick and weighted, conveying the high electricity price through atmospheric tension. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto brushwork visible in the clouds and steam plumes, deep atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant elements, dramatic chiaroscuro where light breaks through overcast, meticulous engineering detail on all infrastructure. No text, no labels.