Massive onshore wind output of 43.1 GW drives 89% renewable share and near-zero prices under full overcast.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 56%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 17%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 4%
89%
Renewable share
50.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
13.4 GW
Solar
77.2 GW
Total generation
+8.2 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.2°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 53.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
75
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 43.1 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines stretching across rolling central German farmland from the centre to the far right, their lattice towers receding into atmospheric haze, rotors spinning briskly in strong wind; wind offshore 7.1 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines visible on a grey horizon line at far right; solar 13.4 GW occupies the mid-left foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels gleaming dully under diffuse light, no direct sun visible; biomass 4.3 GW rendered as a mid-ground industrial plant with a tall flue and modest steam wisp; brown coal 3.3 GW shown as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers at far left with thin steam plumes, proportionally small; natural gas 2.8 GW depicted as a compact CCGT plant with a single exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer, tucked behind the cooling towers; hard coal 2.2 GW as a smaller traditional boiler house with a single chimney, barely smoking; hydro 0.9 GW as a small weir and powerhouse beside a river in the left foreground. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a flat, luminous grey-white ceiling of stratus, full mid-morning daylight at 09:00 diffused evenly with no shadows, no blue sky, no sun disk visible. Early spring landscape: fields showing fresh green shoots, bare deciduous trees beginning to bud, patches of brown earth. Wind animates the scene — grass bends, turbine blades blur with motion, steam plumes shear sideways. The atmosphere feels calm and open despite the grey, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with cool blue-grey tones, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, and cooling tower surface, evoking Caspar David Friedrich's vastness combined with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision. No text, no labels.