Brown coal, gas, and wind dominate generation as full overcast and high demand drive imports and elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 14%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 24%
51%
Renewable share
12.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.0 GW
Solar
48.5 GW
Total generation
14.7 GW
Net import
231.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.9°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
343
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers rising from an open-pit lignite landscape, dense white steam plumes merging into the overcast; natural gas 8.0 GW fills the centre-left as two modern CCGT power plants with slender exhaust stacks trailing thin grey plumes; wind onshore 7.5 GW appears across the centre-right as a line of large three-blade turbines on rolling hills with blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 5.2 GW occupies the far right background as turbines standing in a grey North Sea glimpsed through a gap between hills; solar 7.0 GW is rendered as rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a flat field in the centre foreground, their surfaces reflecting only dull grey sky with no sunshine; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack near the gas units; hard coal 4.4 GW is a traditional coal plant with a tall brick chimney and conveyor belts visible behind the cooling towers; hydro 0.7 GW is a small dam and spillway nestled in a forested valley at the far right edge. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, a uniform heavy grey ceiling pressing low, no sun visible, giving an oppressive atmosphere reflecting the high 231 EUR/MWh price. The lighting is diffuse October morning daylight at 08:00, soft and shadowless, 7.9°C autumn chill visible in muted vegetation — yellowing birches, damp brown grass, faint mist clinging to low ground. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich muted earth tones, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, dramatic industrial sublime. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and lattice towers, PV panel aluminium frames, lignite cooling tower parabolic concrete shells, CCGT exhaust diffusers. The scene conveys the weight of a nation's energy system straining under grey autumn skies. No text, no labels.