Strong onshore wind drives 76.8% renewable share and 13.4 GW net export under heavy October overcast.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 19%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 12%
77%
Renewable share
37.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
13.7 GW
Solar
72.5 GW
Total generation
+13.4 GW
Net export
100.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.2°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
99.0% / 18.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
165
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 32.1 GW dominates the scene, filling the right two-thirds of the composition with dozens of massive three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling central German farmland, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind. Brown coal 8.8 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of four hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes drifting right, alongside a conveyor-fed lignite bunker and boiler house. Wind offshore 5.0 GW appears as a distant line of turbines on the far-right horizon, standing in a sliver of grey sea barely visible through haze. Solar 13.7 GW is rendered as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dull and reflecting only grey sky — no sun glint. Natural gas 4.9 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with slim exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.1 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular chimney and coal stockyard, positioned behind the gas plant. Biomass 3.9 GW is a modest wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a small dome and low stack, nestled among trees at centre. Hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse on a stream in the left foreground. The sky is 99% overcast: a heavy, oppressive blanket of uniform grey stratus stretching edge to edge, no blue visible, diffuse afternoon daylight at 14:00 — bright enough to illuminate the landscape evenly but shadowless. Direct solar radiation is nearly zero, so light is flat and cool-toned. Autumn vegetation: fields of stubble and brown-green grass, deciduous trees showing early yellow-orange foliage, temperature around 13°C giving a damp, cool atmosphere. The high electricity price is evoked by a dense, brooding, slightly oppressive atmospheric weight — low clouds pressing down. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV panel's cell grid. No text, no labels.