Solar at 37.8 GW dominates a calm, cloudless October afternoon while coal and gas hold firm despite net exports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 60%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 14%
70%
Renewable share
1.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.8 GW
Solar
62.5 GW
Total generation
+4.6 GW
Net export
136.7 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
0.0% / 411.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
205
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 37.8 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast expanses of crystalline silicon photovoltaic arrays — aluminium-framed panels in neat rows stretching across golden-stubbled autumn farmland toward the horizon, reflecting brilliant midday sun. Brown coal 8.7 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising vertically in the still air, connected to a sprawling lignite plant with conveyor belts and coal bunkers. Natural gas 6.4 GW appears centre-left as two modern combined-cycle gas turbine blocks with sleek silver exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.4 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional power station with a single tall chimney and coal stockpile. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad biomass facility with a short stack and woodchip storage yard, nestled between the thermal plants. Hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with a concrete powerhouse visible along a gentle river in the middle distance. Wind onshore 0.9 GW and wind offshore 0.5 GW are represented by a handful of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors nearly motionless in the dead-calm air. The sky is completely cloudless, deep cerulean blue, with intense direct sunlight at a moderate early-October afternoon angle casting warm golden light and long-ish shadows. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky — a faint haze hangs at the horizon, lending a brassy, overheated quality to the light that suggests high market tension. Vegetation is early-autumn: fields of harvested stubble, trees showing the first amber and russet tones, green hedgerows beginning to turn. Temperature is mild, 18.5°C — no frost, no heat distortion. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and luminosity, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower curve, yet unified into a grand panoramic industrial landscape composition. No text, no labels.