Strong onshore wind at 26.6 GW and 13.2 GW solar dominate a mid-afternoon grid at 84% renewables with modest net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 22%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 8%
84%
Renewable share
32.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
13.2 GW
Solar
60.0 GW
Total generation
+1.1 GW
Net export
75.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.8°C / 24 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
45.0% / 207.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
117
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 26.6 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling central German hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors visibly turning in the brisk wind; solar 13.2 GW appears as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled south on the gentle slopes in the right foreground, catching direct afternoon light; wind offshore 5.6 GW is suggested by a distant line of larger turbines on the far horizon, partially veiled by atmospheric haze; brown coal 4.8 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that drift rightward in the strong wind; hard coal 3.2 GW sits just to the right of the lignite plant as a smaller coal-fired station with a tall rectangular boiler house, conveyor belt, and a single cylindrical chimney trailing grey smoke; biomass 4.3 GW appears in the left middle ground as a modest industrial facility with a timber-pile yard and a low exhaust stack with faint white vapour; natural gas 1.4 GW is a compact CCGT unit with a single slim exhaust stack near the biomass plant, barely visible; hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir on a stream cutting through the foreground meadow. Late afternoon daylight at 16:00 in March — the sun is moderately low in the western sky, roughly 25 degrees above the horizon, casting warm golden-amber light from the left through a sky that is 45% covered by mid-level cumulus clouds with bright white tops and grey undersides, blue sky visible between them. The atmosphere feels somewhat heavy and oppressive despite the light, reflecting a 75.8 EUR/MWh price — a faint industrial haze hangs in the valleys. Temperature is 6.8°C: early spring, bare deciduous trees with the faintest hint of green buds, pale brown dormant grass, patches of dark wet earth. Wind at 23.6 km/h animates the scene — grass bends, the steam plumes shear sideways, clouds show motion. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich colour palette of amber, slate blue, pearl grey, and deep green; visible impasto brushwork in the clouds and steam; atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant turbines and cooling towers; meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, PV cell grids, cooling tower parabolic profiles, and coal conveyor structures. No text, no labels.