Solar leads at 26.5 GW under overcast skies; coal and imports fill the 4.4 GW gap to meet 56.9 GW demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 50%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 12%
79%
Renewable share
10.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.5 GW
Solar
52.5 GW
Total generation
4.5 GW
Net import
156.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.3°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
82.0% / 203.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
156
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 26.5 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, catching diffuse light through heavy cloud cover. Brown coal 6.2 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast sky. Wind onshore 6.4 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles on lattice-and-tubular towers across a mid-ground ridgeline, blades turning slowly in moderate wind. Wind offshore 3.6 GW is suggested by distant turbines on the far horizon above a grey sea glimpsed through a valley gap. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a medium-scale industrial plant with a timber yard and single smokestack near the left foreground. Hard coal 2.6 GW appears as a coal-fired station with conveyor belts and a pair of rectangular stacks emitting faint grey exhaust, positioned left of centre. Natural gas 2.5 GW is a compact modern CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and clean metallic surfaces, tucked between the coal plant and the solar fields. Hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with a powerhouse along a stream in the foreground valley. The sky is 82% overcast with thick stratocumulus in layered grey and cream tones, but shafts of muted golden afternoon light at 16:00 Berlin time break through gaps, illuminating patches of the solar arrays. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — humid late-summer air with a slight amber-bronze cast. Vegetation is lush late-summer green, with some early hints of yellowing in the grass from the 26°C warmth. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.