Solar at 44.2 GW leads an 83% renewable mix, driving 17.5 GW of net exports under overcast skies.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 58%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 9%
83%
Renewable share
15.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
44.2 GW
Solar
76.6 GW
Total generation
+17.5 GW
Net export
42.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.3°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
93.0% / 136.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
122
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 44.2 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, covering roughly 58% of the composition, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a diffuse, heavily overcast sky. Wind onshore 10.0 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles arrayed across rolling green hills in the right-center background, their blades barely turning in near-calm air. Wind offshore 5.0 GW is visible as a distant line of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a sliver of grey North Sea. Brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge with the overcast ceiling. Hard coal 3.4 GW sits adjacent as a smaller coal plant with rectangular boiler buildings, conveyor belts, and a tall brick chimney trailing darker smoke. Natural gas 2.7 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single polished exhaust stack and smaller rectangular heat-recovery units, positioned between the coal complex and the solar field. Biomass 3.7 GW appears as a modest wood-clad plant with a rounded silo and thin wisp of pale exhaust on the far left. Hydro 0.9 GW is a small dam and spillway visible in a valley at the far left edge. The sky is 93% overcast — a thick, layered grey stratus blanket with only faint brighter patches where the midday sun attempts to penetrate, casting flat, shadowless daylight across the scene. Temperature is a mild 20°C late September: trees show the first hints of amber and gold at their edges, grass is still green but fading. The atmosphere is calm, neither oppressive nor luminous — a moderate 42.9 EUR/MWh price reflected in a neutral, workmanlike mood. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant cooling towers, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.