Solar at 38.4 GW leads a 71.5% renewable mix, with coal and gas setting a 119 EUR/MWh price.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 61%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 14%
72%
Renewable share
1.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.4 GW
Solar
62.7 GW
Total generation
+5.4 GW
Net export
119.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.6°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
42.0% / 178.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
203
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.4 GW dominates the scene as a vast, sweeping plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire right two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under partly cloudy September afternoon light with broken cumulus at 42% cover. Brown coal 9.0 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers, each emitting thick pale steam plumes that drift and merge into the mid-sky haze. Natural gas 4.9 GW appears as a pair of compact combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall single exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer, positioned left of centre. Hard coal 3.9 GW sits beside the lignite complex as a traditional coal plant with a rectangular boiler house and a broad chimney trailing a thin grey plume. Biomass 3.6 GW is represented by a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a conical fuel silo and low stack near centre-left. Wind onshore 1.7 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir visible along a river in the middle distance. Wind offshore 0.1 GW is a faint suggestion of turbines on the far horizon. The lighting is full early-afternoon daylight at 14:00 in late September — sun moderately high, warm but not intense, with patches of shadow cast by clouds moving across the solar field. The atmosphere feels slightly oppressive and hazy, reflecting the high electricity price — a muted golden-grey quality to the air. Vegetation is early-autumn transitional: green fields tinged with amber, deciduous trees showing the first hints of yellowing. Temperature is mild at 15.6°C. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible textured brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic cloud structure — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower curve, every PV panel row. No text, no labels, no people in the foreground.