Solar leads at 29.4 GW under full overcast; low wind and strong coal dispatch drive prices above 162 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 49%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 15%
70%
Renewable share
7.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
29.4 GW
Solar
59.8 GW
Total generation
1.8 GW
Net import
162.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.9°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
213
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 29.4 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire right half and centre-right of the composition, their glass surfaces reflecting a uniform grey sky with no direct sunlight; brown coal 8.8 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast, with conveyor belts of dark lignite visible below; natural gas 5.7 GW appears as a group of compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks and modest heat shimmer, positioned centre-left behind the coal complex; hard coal 3.7 GW stands as a smaller coal-fired station with angular boiler houses and a single shorter cooling tower, adjacent to the lignite plant; wind onshore 4.8 GW is rendered as a modest row of three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers on a low ridge in the far background, their blades barely turning in negligible wind; wind offshore 2.5 GW appears as a faint line of turbines on the distant hazy horizon suggesting the North Sea; biomass 4.0 GW is a mid-sized plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single stack emitting thin pale smoke, nestled in the middle distance among autumn trees; hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a modest powerhouse visible in a river valley at lower right. The sky is entirely covered in dense, heavy, low stratus clouds — no blue, no sun disc — creating a flat, oppressive, diffuse midday light that is bright but shadowless, characteristic of full overcast at noon. The atmosphere feels weighty and close, suggesting high electricity prices. Autumn vegetation — trees with leaves turning gold and russet, some still green, grass fading — covers rolling central German terrain at 16.9°C. The landscape is gentle Thuringian hills. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, tonal subtlety in the greys and ochres — yet every piece of energy infrastructure rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine blade profiles, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT exhaust configurations. No text, no labels.