Overcast solar leads at 22.3 GW but windless conditions force 17.1 GW of thermal and 10 GW net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 48%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 19%
63%
Renewable share
2.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.3 GW
Solar
46.0 GW
Total generation
10.0 GW
Net import
188.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.1°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 146.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
263
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 22.3 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling late-summer farmland, their surfaces reflecting dull silver under heavy overcast; brown coal 8.5 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, with conveyor belts carrying lignite into brutalist boiler houses; natural gas 5.1 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT power stations with tall slender exhaust stacks trailing thin heat haze; hard coal 3.5 GW sits behind the gas plants as a smaller coal-fired station with a single wide chimney and coal stockpiles; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial building with a wood-chip silo and low steam vent; wind onshore 1.4 GW and offshore 0.7 GW appear as a sparse handful of three-blade turbines on the distant right horizon, rotors nearly still; hydro 0.9 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir in the foreground stream. The sky is entirely overcast with thick stratiform clouds in oppressive grey tones pressing low, lending a heavy, almost suffocating atmosphere reflecting the 188 EUR/MWh price. The lighting is full late-afternoon daylight at 16:00 but muted and flat — no shadows, no direct sunbeam, diffuse illumination giving the landscape a silvery-grey cast. Vegetation is still green but touched with the earliest hints of autumn yellowing at leaf edges, consistent with 25°C in late September. The air feels warm and humid. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, sombre colour palette of slate grey, olive green, and industrial ochre, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant cooling towers. Meticulous engineering detail on every technology: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, panel junction boxes, concrete cooling-tower fluting. No text, no labels.