Strong solar and heavy coal and gas dispatch cover demand under windless skies, with significant net imports required.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 44%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 21%
57%
Renewable share
1.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.8 GW
Solar
46.7 GW
Total generation
11.6 GW
Net import
190.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.2°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 316.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
301
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 20.8 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across golden-stubbled October farmland, angled to catch intense afternoon sunlight. Brown coal 9.7 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the still air, flanked by conveyor belts carrying lignite. Natural gas 6.5 GW appears centre-left as a pair of modern CCGT power stations with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.9 GW sits behind the gas plants as a darker, older station with chunky rectangular boiler houses and a single large smokestack. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad combined heat and power facility with a small dome and wood-chip storage silos near the centre. Hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with green water at the far left edge. Wind onshore 0.6 GW is a single distant three-blade turbine on a ridge, its rotor barely turning. The sky is completely cloudless, deep blue overhead with warm golden-amber light from the west-southwest sun at a moderately low October 16:00 angle, casting long shadows. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky — a subtle bronze-yellow haze at the horizon suggests expensive, strained conditions. Vegetation is early-autumn: trees with yellowing leaves, dry grass, warm tones. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous sky treatment — but with meticulous engineering accuracy for each power technology. No text, no labels.