Solar leads at 32.8 GW under heavy overcast; wind near-absent forces 21.1 GW of thermal dispatch, lifting prices to 181 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 54%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 18%
65%
Renewable share
1.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.8 GW
Solar
60.5 GW
Total generation
1.1 GW
Net import
180.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.9°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
97.0% / 116.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
247
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 32.8 GW dominates the centre and right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land under a thick, oppressive, uniformly grey overcast sky at midday; brown coal 10.6 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting dense white-grey steam plumes that merge into the leaden clouds; natural gas 6.3 GW appears as a group of compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting heat shimmer in the centre-left; hard coal 4.2 GW sits behind the gas units as a smaller coal-fired station with a pair of rectangular chimneys trailing thin smoke; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad CHP plant with a small stack near the middle ground; wind onshore 1.4 GW appears as two or three distant three-blade turbines on the far right horizon, rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 0.4 GW is suggested by a single tiny turbine silhouette on the far horizon; hydro 1.1 GW is a small weir and powerhouse along a river in the foreground. The sky is flat, heavy, almost silver-white, oppressive and humid, consistent with 97% cloud cover and 17.9°C — no sunbeams break through yet a diffuse brightness illuminates everything evenly without shadows. Vegetation is late-summer green beginning to hint at early autumn yellowing. The atmosphere feels thick, weighty, and expensive. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth receding into haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every panel's aluminium frame — a monumental industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels.