Solar leads at 30.2 GW under full overcast, supported by 17.8 GW onshore wind and persistent coal baseload.
Back
Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 46%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 8%
82%
Renewable share
18.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.2 GW
Solar
66.3 GW
Total generation
+2.1 GW
Net export
74.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.3°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 62.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
131
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 30.2 GW dominates the foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting a flat white-grey sky; wind onshore 17.8 GW fills the right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning steadily in moderate wind; brown coal 5.3 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast; hard coal 3.5 GW appears beside them as a smaller power station with rectangular boiler buildings and a tall chimney stack trailing thin smoke; natural gas 3.4 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single polished exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer near centre-left; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a rounded silo and short smokestack amid green fields; hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small concrete run-of-river weir along a swollen spring river in the mid-distance; wind offshore 0.4 GW is barely hinted at as a faint silhouette of two turbines on the far horizon. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform, heavy, pewter-grey ceiling with no blue patches and no direct sun, but fully lit by bright midday diffuse daylight, casting soft shadowless illumination across the landscape. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green grass, budding deciduous trees with pale new leaves, cool 11°C atmosphere with a slight dampness in the air. The atmosphere is moderately oppressive, reflecting the 74.1 EUR/MWh price — clouds feel weighty and low. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective and depth, but meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's reinforced concrete hyperbolic curve. No text, no labels.