Wind leads at 20.5 GW but heavy overcast and 9.4 GW net imports push prices to 205 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 15%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 20%
65%
Renewable share
20.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.5 GW
Solar
51.2 GW
Total generation
9.3 GW
Net import
205.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.7°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
94.0% / 6.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
254
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.3 GW dominates the left quarter as a sprawling lignite complex with four massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the grey sky; wind onshore 14.9 GW fills the centre-right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling hills, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; solar 7.5 GW appears in the centre-left foreground as large arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on green meadows, their surfaces dull and muted under dense overcast with no reflections; wind offshore 5.6 GW is visible in the far-right background as a distant line of turbines rising from a grey North Sea horizon; natural gas 4.4 GW sits mid-left as two compact CCGT plants with single tall exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip facility with a low smokestack and stacked timber; hard coal 3.2 GW is rendered as a smaller coal plant with a single square cooling tower behind the lignite complex; hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam and penstock visible in a distant valley at far left. The sky is 94% overcast — a uniform heavy pewter-grey ceiling of stratus cloud with almost no breaks, diffuse morning daylight from the east at 08:00 Berlin time providing flat, shadowless illumination. Temperature 12.7°C early autumn: trees show the first touches of yellow and amber on their leaves, grass is deep green and damp. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — the air is dense, slightly hazy, with low visibility toward the horizon. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, and meticulous technical accuracy in rendering each energy technology — turbine nacelles, rotor blades, cooling tower parabolic profiles, PV panel grid lines, exhaust stacks. The scene is a grand panoramic industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels.