Solar dominates at 34.7 GW under full overcast; brown coal and gas provide firm backup as Germany exports 5.3 GW.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 52%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 16%
68%
Renewable share
4.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.7 GW
Solar
66.1 GW
Total generation
+5.4 GW
Net export
158.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.3°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 9.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
225
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 34.7 GW dominates the composition, filling the entire right half and extending into the centre as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling farmland under a heavy, uniformly overcast sky with flat white-grey light and no visible sun. Brown coal 10.6 GW occupies the far left as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the low cloud ceiling, flanked by open-pit mine terraces in raw brown earth. Natural gas 7.2 GW appears as a modern combined-cycle gas turbine facility in the centre-left with tall slender exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling tower releasing thin vapour. Hard coal 3.5 GW is rendered as a smaller coal-fired station with a single tall chimney and coal conveyor belts visible behind the gas plant. Wind onshore 2.7 GW appears as a modest cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 2.1 GW is suggested by a row of turbines on the far horizon where a grey sea meets grey sky. Biomass 4.2 GW shows as a wood-chip-fed plant with a squat smokestack and timber storage yard near the solar fields. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river station with a weir visible along a quiet river in the middle ground. The season is late September with trees showing early autumn colour—yellowing birches and browning oaks—and the temperature of 6.3°C is conveyed through a thin ground mist and figures in jackets. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: the cloud layer presses low, the air feels dense, and the light is flat and without warmth. Full daytime at 10:00 but completely diffuse—no shadows, no sun disk, no blue sky anywhere. Style: a monumental, highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art—rich layered colour in muted earth tones and grey-greens, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant objects—yet every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.