Solar leads at 37.3 GW under overcast skies, with wind and legacy thermal plants balancing a nearly self-sufficient grid.
Back
Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 62%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 8%
86%
Renewable share
8.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.3 GW
Solar
59.8 GW
Total generation
-0.3 GW
Net import
85.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.9°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 279.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
102
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 37.3 GW dominates the scene as vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels covering rolling green fields and rooftops across the right two-thirds of the composition, their surfaces reflecting a bright but diffuse milky-white sky. Wind onshore 7.2 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers scattered across mid-ground hills, blades turning gently in moderate wind. Wind offshore 1.3 GW is suggested by a distant cluster of turbines on a hazy horizon line above a faint sliver of sea. Brown coal 4.6 GW occupies the left background as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick grey-white steam plumes that merge with the overcast ceiling. Biomass 3.6 GW appears as a cluster of squat industrial buildings with short stacks and pale exhaust near a woodchip storage yard at centre-left. Natural gas 2.5 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and a small dry cooling unit adjacent to the coal complex. Hydro 1.8 GW is depicted as a concrete dam and spillway nestled in a wooded valley at far left with white water cascading. Hard coal 1.5 GW appears as a single older power station with a tall brick chimney and conveyor belt, partially obscured by the cooling tower steam. Full midday daylight at 13:00 in June but entirely overcast: the sky is a uniform blanket of luminous pearl-grey cloud with no blue patches and no visible sun disc, yet the landscape is brightly lit with soft shadowless illumination. Temperature 23.9 °C: lush early-summer vegetation, deep green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers in meadow strips between panels. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive — humid warmth under a sealed sky, consistent with an 85 EUR/MWh price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and Romantic grandeur — but every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels, no people prominent.