Diffuse solar leads at 28.5 GW under heavy overcast, with wind and coal providing substantial support at 102 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 47%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 12%
77%
Renewable share
13.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.5 GW
Solar
61.0 GW
Total generation
+1.9 GW
Net export
102.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.4°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
91.0% / 112.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
169
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 28.5 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their surfaces reflecting a flat, diffuse white-grey light; brown coal 7.3 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, with conveyor belts of dark lignite feeding into brutalist boiler houses; hard coal 4.2 GW sits beside them as a smaller power station with rectangular stacks and coal bunkers; wind onshore 11.0 GW spans the distant middle horizon as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning slowly in moderate breeze; wind offshore 2.7 GW appears as a faint row of turbines on a hazy horizon line suggesting the North Sea; natural gas 2.5 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and low-profile gas turbine enclosures; biomass 3.7 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip facility with a modest smoking chimney and timber storage yard; hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a concrete powerhouse beside a green riverbank. The sky is fully overcast at 91% cloud cover—a heavy, unbroken blanket of warm grey stratus pressing down oppressively, consistent with the high electricity price, with only faint luminosity indicating the early-afternoon sun behind the clouds. The light is bright but entirely diffuse, shadowless, characteristic of a 14:00 overcast September day. Vegetation is late-summer green beginning to show the first amber hints of autumn; temperature is mild at 19°C. The atmosphere is thick, humid, slightly hazy, giving a sense of weight and pressure. Painted in the highly detailed style of a 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and panel frame—evoking Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale but applied to a modern industrial energy landscape. No text, no labels.