Wind and solar together exceed demand; 12.2 GW net exports flow as coal and gas hold steady at moderate levels.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 29%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 10%
78%
Renewable share
31.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.3 GW
Solar
76.1 GW
Total generation
+12.2 GW
Net export
41.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.9°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
76.0% / 191.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
161
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 26.2 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the canvas as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers receding into atmospheric depth across a flat German plain, rotors visibly spinning in strong wind; solar 22.3 GW fills the lower-centre foreground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled south, reflecting a diffuse grey-white sky with patches of weak direct sunlight breaking through; brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting in the wind; hard coal 5.6 GW sits adjacent as a large conventional power station with tall chimneys and thin grey exhaust; natural gas 3.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single clean exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer; wind offshore 5.4 GW is suggested on the distant northern horizon as a faint line of turbines above a grey sea glimpsed between land features; biomass 4.3 GW is represented by a mid-sized plant with a wood-chip storage dome and low steam output near the coal complex; hydro 0.9 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with a powerhouse visible along a river cutting through the foreground. Time is 10:00 AM full daylight, but the sky is 76% overcast with layered alto-stratus clouds in cool grey-white tones, a few gaps allowing pale shafts of direct sunlight to fall across the solar fields. Temperature is near 5°C: early spring, bare deciduous trees with the faintest green budding, brown-grey grass, patches of frost in shadow. The wind is strong at 22 km/h, bending grasses and pushing cloud shadows rapidly across the landscape. The mood is calm and industrious, not oppressive—moderate price conveyed by an open, quietly luminous sky despite the clouds. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth married to meticulous industrial-age engineering detail—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic use of aerial perspective with hazy blues in the distance. Turbine nacelles show correct mechanical housing, PV panels show cell grid patterns, cooling towers have accurate hyperboloid geometry with reinforced concrete texture, CCGT stacks have correct proportions. No text, no labels, no people prominent—the landscape and its energy infrastructure are the subject.