Solar leads at 26 GW but weak wind forces brown coal, gas, and net imports to balance autumn midday demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 48%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 22%
60%
Renewable share
1.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.0 GW
Solar
54.1 GW
Total generation
5.6 GW
Net import
152.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.3°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
68.0% / 214.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
287
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 26.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, angled south and catching diffused light; brown coal 12.0 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes against the hazy sky; natural gas 6.4 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.4 GW sits behind them as a single dark coal-fired station with a tall chimney and conveyor belts; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a cluster of smaller industrial buildings with rounded digesters and modest stacks amid trees showing early autumn yellowing; wind onshore 1.0 GW appears as a handful of barely turning three-blade turbines on distant ridgelines, rotors nearly still; wind offshore 0.4 GW is suggested by two or three tiny turbines on a far hazy horizon line; hydro 0.9 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir visible along a modest river in the middle ground. Full midday daylight but overcast-heavy: the sky is a layered palette of grey-white and pale blue, 68% cloud cover filtering the sun into a bright diffuse glow with occasional shafts of direct light at 214 W/m² casting faint shadows. The atmosphere feels thick, slightly oppressive, hinting at the high electricity price — a warm haze sits over the landscape. Temperature 17.3°C shapes the vegetation: deciduous trees show green with early touches of amber and rust. 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, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, dramatic cloud formations rendered with Romantic grandeur, but every industrial element depicted with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, cooling tower hyperboloid geometry, PV cell grid patterns, CCGT exhaust cowls. No text, no labels.