Wind leads at 24.2 GW but overcast skies, strong coal output, and 6.6 GW net imports mark a tight autumn morning.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 15%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 17%
68%
Renewable share
24.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.5 GW
Solar
55.0 GW
Total generation
6.5 GW
Net import
193.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.1°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
85.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
229
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.6 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into overcast sky; wind onshore 18.3 GW spans the entire background and right half as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers receding across rolling farmland with blades turning slowly; wind offshore 5.9 GW appears as a distant row of taller turbines visible on a grey sea horizon at far right; natural gas 4.6 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with slim exhaust stacks venting thin heat haze; hard coal 3.2 GW appears as a single coal-fired station with a tall chimney and modest steam beside the lignite complex; solar 8.5 GW is rendered as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground reflecting only flat grey diffuse light, no sun glare; biomass 4.1 GW shown as a medium-sized wood-chip plant with a green-painted silo and low exhaust; hydro 0.8 GW is a small run-of-river weir with modest white water in the foreground river. Time is 08:00 on a late September morning: full daylight but deeply overcast at 85% cloud cover, the sky a uniform heavy grey with no blue patches and virtually no direct sunlight, only flat diffuse illumination. Temperature 9°C: early autumn landscape with mixed green and faintly yellowing deciduous trees, dew on grass, cool mist lingering in low valleys. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting 193.8 EUR/MWh pricing — a brooding, weighty sky pressing down on the industrial landscape. 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 confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's concrete ribbing, every PV panel's aluminium frame — a masterwork of industrial sublime. No text, no labels.