Overcast solar at 29 GW dominates alongside 12.2 GW wind, with 6 GW net imports bridging the consumption gap.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 55%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
12.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
29.0 GW
Solar
52.3 GW
Total generation
-6.0 GW
Net import
78.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.6°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 198.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
74
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 29.0 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green farmland under full overcast; wind onshore 10.7 GW fills the distant right as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers scattered along a ridge, blades turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 1.5 GW appears as a faint cluster of turbines on a hazy horizon line at far right; brown coal 2.9 GW occupies the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising into the grey sky, adjacent to a conveyor belt and lignite stockpile; natural gas 2.1 GW sits left-centre as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and low heat-recovery building; hard coal 0.7 GW appears as a small, dark coal plant with a modest chimney barely visible behind the gas plant; biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a mid-ground cluster of wood-clad biomass CHP facilities with rounded storage silos and wispy exhaust; hydro 1.9 GW is depicted as a small concrete run-of-river dam with white water cascading on the far left beside a wooded slope. The sky is entirely overcast—a thick, uniform blanket of pale-grey stratus clouds—but the scene is brightly lit with the diffuse, shadowless daylight of a 16:00 June afternoon; no direct sun disc visible; lush mid-June green vegetation, wildflowers in meadows, temperature around 17 °C suggesting light jackets on tiny figures near the panels. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, reflecting elevated electricity prices—humid air, a weight to the clouds pressing down. Rendered as a 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 greens and muted greys, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading the distant turbines into haze, and meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV cell pattern, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack riveting. No text, no labels.