Diffuse solar leads at 25.3 GW under full overcast, with 21.9 GW of thermal backup driving prices to 173 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 42%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 17%
64%
Renewable share
8.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.3 GW
Solar
60.4 GW
Total generation
2.3 GW
Net import
172.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.6°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
258
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 25.3 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces grey and matte under a completely overcast sky reflecting no direct sunlight; brown coal 10.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the low cloud ceiling; natural gas 6.1 GW appears as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails positioned centre-left; hard coal 5.4 GW stands behind as a traditional coal plant with rectangular boiler house and twin chimneys trailing grey smoke; wind onshore 6.2 GW is rendered as a line of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on gentle hills in the mid-ground right, blades turning slowly in moderate breeze; wind offshore 1.8 GW is barely visible as distant turbines on a hazy horizon line; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a wood-fired CHP facility with a modest smokestack and timber yard near centre; hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with turbine house beside a calm river in the right foreground. The sky is uniformly heavy, a low blanket of iron-grey stratus pressing down with oppressive weight, no blue visible anywhere, full diffuse daylight of a 10 AM September morning but dull and flat. Vegetation is late-summer green beginning to hint at autumn gold, temperature mild at 16°C. The atmosphere feels weighty and expensive—the heavy cloud ceiling and industrial steam create a claustrophobic, pressurised mood. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric sfumato in the distance, deep tonal range from cream-grey skies to dark industrial silhouettes, meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and panel array geometry. No text, no labels.