Wind and diffuse solar dominate at 80% renewables, driving 10 GW of net exports under full overcast.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 34%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 10%
80%
Renewable share
28.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.4 GW
Solar
74.1 GW
Total generation
+10.0 GW
Net export
70.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.8°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 36.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
136
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 22.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast rolling fields of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching to the horizon across gentle German hills; wind offshore 6.0 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of turbines standing in a grey North Sea glimpsed through a valley gap; solar 25.4 GW fills the centre-right foreground as enormous arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels covering flat agricultural land, their surfaces reflecting the flat grey light of a completely overcast sky; brown coal 7.1 GW occupies the left portion as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the low cloud deck, conveyor belts feeding dark lignite from an open-pit mine visible at the far left; natural gas 5.3 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails; hard coal 2.3 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single stack and coal stockpile beside it, tucked between the gas plant and the lignite station; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a modest chimney and timber storage yard in the left-centre middle ground; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with a powerhouse along a grey river cutting through the foreground. The sky is entirely blanketed in thick stratiform cloud at 100% cover, no blue visible, a flat diffuse white-grey daylight illuminating the scene evenly from above—it is 09:00 morning daylight but muted, no shadows, no direct sun. Temperature is near 6°C: bare deciduous trees with just the faintest hint of early spring buds, brown-green dormant grass, patches of lingering frost in shaded hollows. Moderate wind suggested by gently bending bare branches and spinning turbine blades. The atmosphere feels weighty and slightly oppressive consistent with a 70.9 EUR/MWh price—thick low clouds pressing down, industrial haze mingling with steam. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, rich colour palette of greys, muted greens, ochres, and ivory whites, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with receding layers of turbines fading into mist, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, conveyor gantry, and transformer yard. No text, no labels.