Strong onshore wind and diffuse solar dominate an 81%-renewable grid with moderate exports and steady thermal baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 40%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 26%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 7%
81%
Renewable share
32.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.9 GW
Solar
69.6 GW
Total generation
+2.7 GW
Net export
46.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.1°C / 31 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
82.0% / 140.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
131
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 27.6 GW dominates the scene, filling the right half and extending into the centre as vast ranks of modern three-blade turbines on tall lattice-and-tubular towers stretching across rolling green-brown early-spring farmland, rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind. Wind offshore 5.1 GW appears in the far-right background as a distant cluster of turbines on a grey North Sea horizon. Solar 17.9 GW occupies the centre-left foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled southward, their surfaces catching diffuse grey-white daylight filtering through heavy overcast. Brown coal 4.6 GW sits at the far left as two large hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that drift rightward in the wind. Natural gas 4.5 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with slim metallic exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling tower, positioned just right of the brown coal. Hard coal 4.2 GW is rendered as a dark industrial building with a tall chimney and visible coal conveyor, adjacent to the gas plant. Biomass 4.5 GW shows as a mid-sized timber-clad facility with a modest smokestack and woodchip storage yard, set among the turbine fields. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir visible on a stream in the lower-left foreground. The sky is 82% overcast — a thick blanket of stratocumulus with occasional bright gaps where diffuse sunlight breaks through, casting soft flat illumination consistent with 11:00 CET full daytime. Temperature around 6°C: vegetation is early spring — bare deciduous trees with first tiny buds, pale-green grass, patches of brown earth. Wind at 31 km/h bends grasses and drives the turbine blades at high speed, steam plumes shearing sideways. The atmosphere is moderate — neither oppressive nor serene, reflecting a 46 EUR/MWh price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette of slate greys, muted greens, ivory cloud-light, and industrial ochre; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to the offshore horizon. Meticulous engineering accuracy on every technology: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, PV module grid patterns, hyperbolic cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust detail. The scene feels like a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.