Solar leads at 21.6 GW under overcast skies; wind adds 14.1 GW; brown coal and imports cover the remaining gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 41%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 14%
77%
Renewable share
14.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.6 GW
Solar
52.6 GW
Total generation
2.3 GW
Net import
155.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.4°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 144.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
174
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 21.6 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling hills under diffuse grey light; brown coal 7.5 GW occupies the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into the overcast sky; wind onshore 8.8 GW appears as a long row of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a distant ridge, their blades turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 5.3 GW is suggested on the far horizon as smaller turbine silhouettes beyond a hazy coastal edge; hard coal 2.6 GW stands as a compact power station with a single tall smokestack and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel, positioned between the lignite towers and the solar fields; natural gas 2.2 GW appears as a sleek CCGT plant with a pair of polished exhaust stacks emitting thin transparent heat shimmer; biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad facility with a rounded storage silo and gentle wisp of white smoke; hydro 1.0 GW is a small dam and penstock visible along a stream in the mid-ground valley. TIME: 4 PM full daylight but heavily overcast — the entire sky is a continuous blanket of thick grey-white clouds, no blue sky visible, light is flat and diffuse with no direct shadows. Temperature is warm, 26°C late September: vegetation is lush green with the earliest hints of autumn gold at leaf edges, grass still verdant. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive — a warm humid haze softens distant objects, the air looks dense and slightly stifling, conveying the high electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour palette of muted greens, warm ochres, industrial greys, and cream-white steam; visible impasto brushwork in the clouds and cooling tower plumes; careful atmospheric perspective with objects fading into the humid haze; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower ribbing, and smokestack. No text, no labels, no people in foreground.