Brown coal leads at 11.6 GW; full overcast and light winds drive 14.2 GW net imports and a 225 EUR/MWh price.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 18%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 25%
50%
Renewable share
9.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.6 GW
Solar
46.8 GW
Total generation
14.2 GW
Net import
225.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.2°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
357
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into an oppressively overcast sky; natural gas 6.6 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 5.3 GW sits behind them as a traditional coal plant with a large rectangular boiler house and twin chimneys trailing faint grey smoke; wind onshore 7.6 GW stretches across the centre-right as a line of large three-blade turbines on lattice towers, blades turning lazily in light wind; wind offshore 1.9 GW appears as distant smaller turbines on the far right horizon above a grey river estuary; solar 8.6 GW is rendered as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground, their surfaces reflecting only flat grey light with no sun glare or shadows; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a modest wood-chip power station with a cylindrical silo and short stack near the solar field; hydro 1.0 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible along a river in the middle distance. The time is 08:00 on a September morning — full daylight but entirely diffuse, no direct sunlight, 100% cloud cover creating a uniform heavy grey-white sky pressing down on the landscape. The atmosphere feels dense and oppressive, conveying high electricity prices. Vegetation is late-summer green beginning to show early autumn yellows at the edges, consistent with 17°C. The landscape is a gently rolling German plain. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — with rich earth tones, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, PV panel frame, and smokestack. No text, no labels.