Overcast solar at 32.3 GW leads generation, backed by 20.4 GW of thermal plants under weak wind conditions.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 52%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 14%
67%
Renewable share
4.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.3 GW
Solar
62.5 GW
Total generation
+0.7 GW
Net export
179.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.7°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 91.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
224
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 32.3 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching toward a hazy horizon, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a flat white overcast sky. Brown coal 8.9 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the cloud ceiling, alongside a conveyor belt feeding dark lignite into a blocky power station. Natural gas 7.7 GW appears left-of-centre as two compact CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks emitting faint heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.8 GW sits behind the gas units as a single coal-fired station with a tall rectangular chimney and coal stockpile. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground cluster of wood-chip silos and a modest biomass boiler with a low stack trailing wispy smoke. Wind onshore 3.2 GW appears as a small group of three-blade turbines on a gentle ridge in the right background, their rotors barely turning. Wind offshore 1.6 GW is suggested far in the distance as tiny turbines on a grey sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain. Hydro 0.8 GW is a single small dam and penstock visible in a valley fold at the far right edge. The sky is entirely overcast — a heavy, oppressive blanket of uniform grey-white stratus at 179 EUR/MWh price tension, pressing down on the landscape. Lighting is full diffuse daytime at 10:00 — no shadows, no direct sun, soft flat illumination. Vegetation is early-autumn transitional: fields of stubble, some trees beginning to turn yellow-gold, grass still mostly green. Temperature of 14.7 °C conveyed by figures in light jackets near the biomass plant. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.