Solar leads at 19.7 GW under full overcast, with wind and lignite supporting a near-balanced grid at zero price.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 41%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 15%
75%
Renewable share
11.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.7 GW
Solar
47.6 GW
Total generation
1.3 GW
Net import
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Day-ahead price
17.1°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 12.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
188
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 19.7 GW dominates the foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling September farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting a uniform white-grey overcast sky; wind onshore 9.5 GW fills the right third of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning slowly in moderate breeze; brown coal 6.9 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting heavy white steam plumes that merge with the low cloud ceiling; hard coal 3.4 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired power station with tall rectangular chimneys and conveyor infrastructure just behind the lignite plant; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip gasification facility with cylindrical digesters and a single thin exhaust; wind offshore 1.8 GW is suggested by a faint line of turbines visible on the far horizon; natural gas 1.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single sleek exhaust stack emitting a wisp of heat haze; hydro 1.0 GW is a small run-of-river weir visible in a stream in the lower-left corner. The sky is completely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a flat, luminous pearl-grey ceiling with no sun disc visible, yet full diffuse midday daylight illuminates everything evenly with no harsh shadows. Temperature 17°C: early-autumn vegetation, green fields just beginning to show faint gold at the edges, deciduous trees still mostly green. Calm, open, tranquil atmosphere reflecting a zero-price market — no oppressive weight, just quiet equilibrium. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with distances fading into haze, meticulous engineering detail on every nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower flute, and smokestack. No text, no labels.