Diffuse solar leads generation at 17.6 GW but near-zero wind and heavy imports drive prices to 149 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 55%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 18%
74%
Renewable share
1.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.6 GW
Solar
32.1 GW
Total generation
14.6 GW
Net import
149.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.5°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 118.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
194
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 17.6 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting a dull grey-white overcast sky; brown coal 5.6 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; biomass 3.9 GW appears in the centre-left as a cluster of wood-chip-fed industrial boilers with low rectangular stacks and thin grey exhaust trails; natural gas 1.7 GW sits behind them as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller vapor plume; hard coal 1.0 GW is a smaller conventional coal plant to the far left with a single square chimney; hydro 0.9 GW is represented by a concrete run-of-river weir along a modest river in the mid-ground; wind onshore 0.6 GW and wind offshore 0.6 GW appear as a sparse row of three-blade turbines on the distant horizon, their rotors completely motionless in the dead-calm air. Time is 16:00 in early October — full daylight but entirely diffuse, no shadows, a heavy uniform blanket of grey stratus cloud from horizon to horizon creating an oppressive, weighty atmosphere consistent with high electricity prices. Temperature is mild at 18.5°C; vegetation is early-autumn green with scattered patches of yellowing leaves on deciduous trees bordering the fields. The landscape is flat northern German plain. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, muted palette of greys, slate blues, ochres, and dull greens — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack rivet. No text, no labels.