Onshore wind and overcast solar dominate at 84% renewables, driving 5.1 GW net exports despite firm prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 33%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
84%
Renewable share
26.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.7 GW
Solar
62.3 GW
Total generation
+5.1 GW
Net export
74.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.4°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 73.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
115
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 22.1 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling green late-summer fields, blades turning steadily in moderate wind; solar 20.7 GW fills the foreground center-left as vast arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on low metal racks across flat farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting the pale grey-white light of a completely overcast sky; brown coal 5.6 GW anchors the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge with the low cloud ceiling, beside a conveyor belt feeding dark lignite; wind offshore 4.7 GW is visible at the distant right horizon as a row of turbines standing in a faintly visible grey sea; biomass 3.7 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wooden-chip storage dome and a single smokestack releasing thin pale exhaust, nestled among trees at center-left; natural gas 2.8 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a tall silver exhaust stack and attached heat-recovery unit near the coal complex; hard coal 1.6 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a single square chimney and coal yard visible behind the gas plant; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a modest concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a tree-lined river in the middle distance. The sky is entirely blanketed in uniform grey stratus at 100% cloud cover, yet the scene is fully daylit at 16:00 with soft diffuse light casting almost no shadows — a flat, bright but sunless September afternoon. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, reflecting the firm electricity price. Vegetation is lush late-summer green, some leaves just hinting at early autumn gold. Temperature is mild at 18°C. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered color, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.