Solar leads at 31 GW but wind drought forces heavy coal and gas dispatch, pushing prices above 170 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 51%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 18%
62%
Renewable share
1.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.1 GW
Solar
61.0 GW
Total generation
0.5 GW
Net import
172.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.4°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
94.0% / 115.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
266
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 31.1 GW dominates the centre and right of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their surfaces reflecting a flat overcast sky. Brown coal 11.2 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the grey cloud deck. Natural gas 7.4 GW appears behind the solar fields as a pair of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with slender exhaust stacks and smaller rectangular cooling units, thin exhaust wisps rising vertically in the still air. Hard coal 4.5 GW sits at the far left as a coal-fired plant with a tall rectangular boiler house, precipitator structures, and a single tapered smokestack. Biomass 3.9 GW is visible as a mid-sized wood-chip plant with a dome-roofed fuel store and modest chimney near the lignite complex. Wind onshore 1.7 GW and wind offshore 0.2 GW are represented by a sparse line of tall three-blade turbines along a distant ridge, their rotors completely stationary, blades frozen in the dead calm. Hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir and turbine house beside a river in the middle distance. The sky is a heavy, oppressive blanket of 94% overcast in tones of pewter and dull silver — full diffuse daylight of a 10:00 morning but no direct sun, no shadows. The air is still and cool at 10°C; early-autumn vegetation shows the first hints of yellowing leaves on birch and linden trees. The atmosphere feels weighty and expensive, almost suffocating under the thick low clouds. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective receding into haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, lattice tower, cooling tower flute, and PV panel frame — a grand industrial landscape rendered as a masterwork. No text, no labels.