Solar at 35.1 GW dominates under overcast skies; brown coal and low wind support an 8.0 GW net export.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 68%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 11%
82%
Renewable share
2.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.1 GW
Solar
51.5 GW
Total generation
+8.0 GW
Net export
70.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.0°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
93.0% / 281.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
131
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 35.1 GW dominates the scene as vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition from centre to right, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting diffuse light. Brown coal 5.8 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white-grey steam plumes rising and merging with the overcast sky, flanked by conveyor belts and stockpiles of dark lignite. Wind offshore 1.9 GW appears as a distant row of slender three-blade turbines on the far-right horizon, rotors barely turning. Wind onshore 0.6 GW shows as two or three lattice-towered turbines on a gentle hill, blades nearly still. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with timber-clad walls and a modest smokestack emitting thin pale exhaust, positioned centre-left between the solar fields and the coal plant. Natural gas 1.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer, tucked beside the coal complex. Hard coal 1.5 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular chimney and dark coal bunker, partially obscured behind the lignite towers. Hydro 0.9 GW is suggested by a small reservoir and concrete dam in the mid-ground valley. The sky is 93% overcast — a thick, flat, pewter-grey cloud layer covering nearly the entire sky, yet with enough luminosity filtering through to create bright diffuse daylight at 14:00; a faint brighter patch hints at the sun's position. Temperature is a mild 18°C; vegetation shows early autumn — oaks and beeches with leaves turning gold and amber, grass still green. The air feels heavy and slightly oppressive, hinting at the 70.2 EUR/MWh price tension. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated earth tones, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant cooling towers, dramatic chiaroscuro within the cloud layer. Meticulous engineering detail on every technology. No text, no labels.