Solar leads at 29.2 GW under overcast skies; brown coal, gas, and hard coal compensate for near-zero wind.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 47%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 16%
60%
Renewable share
3.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
29.2 GW
Solar
62.1 GW
Total generation
0.4 GW
Net import
171.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.1°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 3.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
266
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 29.2 GW dominates the right half and middle distance as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling autumn farmland, their surfaces reflecting diffuse grey light; brown coal 10.2 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four towering hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge with the overcast sky; natural gas 10.1 GW sits centre-left as a modern CCGT facility with twin slim exhaust stacks venting thin heat haze; hard coal 4.3 GW appears behind the gas plant as a smaller coal station with a single rectangular boiler house and stockpile of dark fuel; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a modest timber-clad plant with a low chimney and wood-chip storage yard at centre-right; wind onshore 2.1 GW shows as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 1.1 GW is suggested by faint turbine silhouettes on the far horizon beyond low hills; hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse beside a dark stream in the left middle ground. The sky is a uniform heavy 100% overcast in muted pearl-grey and slate tones, oppressive and low-hanging, pressing down on the landscape — no sunbeams, no blue patches, full diffuse daytime brightness of a cloudy mid-morning in October. Vegetation is early-autumn: fields stubbled, deciduous trees showing gold and russet leaves beginning to thin, grass damp and dark green. Temperature feels cold at 8°C — mist clings to low ground, breath-steam implied. The atmosphere is heavy and brooding, reflecting the high electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime industrial landscape, meticulous engineering detail on all structures — nacelles, lattice towers, cooling tower parabolic curves, panel racking — luminous glazed shadows, no text, no labels.