Wind leads at 24.5 GW but full overcast suppresses solar, driving coal and gas dispatch and elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 37%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 4%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 23%
61%
Renewable share
24.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.3 GW
Solar
51.9 GW
Total generation
9.3 GW
Net import
193.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.2°C / 11 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
284
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.8 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into heavy overcast; natural gas 5.5 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and thinner grey exhaust; hard coal 3.2 GW sits behind as a smaller coal plant with rectangular cooling towers and a single chimney; wind onshore 19.1 GW spans the entire right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers, rotors turning moderately in the breeze, stretching across rolling green-brown autumn hills; wind offshore 5.4 GW is suggested on the far-right horizon as a cluster of turbines emerging from a grey strip of North Sea; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed plant with a modest stack and woodpile yard; hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white water at bottom-right; solar 2.3 GW is a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dull and reflective-grey under the clouds, producing minimal output. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover—a flat, heavy, oppressive ceiling of iron-grey stratus with no blue or sun visible, conveying the high 193 EUR/MWh price tension. Lighting is diffuse October morning daylight at 08:00, soft and shadowless, 15°C autumn air. Vegetation is muted autumn green-brown grass and scattered trees with early leaf colour. Foreground includes damp earth and a gravel access road. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich tonal depth, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant turbines, dramatic industrial sublime mood. Meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, PV panel framing, and gas-plant piping. No text, no labels.