Solar leads at 25.3 GW but calm winds and cold weather force heavy coal, gas dispatch and 6.5 GW net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 44%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 19%
59%
Renewable share
3.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.3 GW
Solar
57.6 GW
Total generation
-6.5 GW
Net import
127.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.9°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
88% / 10.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
286
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.8 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into heavy grey skies, surrounded by conveyor belts of dark lignite; natural gas 7.5 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 5.3 GW appears behind them as a brick-and-steel power station with twin chimneys and coal stockpiles; solar 25.3 GW stretches across the entire right half and middle distance as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on flat farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting the pale diffuse light of a heavily overcast sky — no direct sun visible, no shadows, just a uniform milky-grey illumination; wind onshore 2.5 GW appears as a sparse line of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors completely still in the dead-calm air; wind offshore 0.5 GW is barely suggested as tiny turbine silhouettes on a far grey horizon; biomass 4.4 GW is a modest wood-chip plant with a small smokestack near the coal station; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a concrete dam with thin water spill in a narrow valley at far right. The sky is thick with 88% cloud cover, low stratus clouds pressing down oppressively, no blue visible, the morning light at 9 AM is fully daylight but flat and cold, the colour palette muted greys, slate blues, and industrial ochres. Temperature near freezing: bare deciduous trees with frost on branches, patches of old snow on brown fields, breath-like mist hanging low over the ground. High-voltage transmission lines with lattice pylons cross the scene carrying imported power. The atmosphere feels heavy, expensive, strained. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with industrial haze, dramatic chiaroscuro in the coal plant steam, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve — a masterwork landscape of energy and scarcity. No text, no labels.