Strong onshore wind and diffuse solar drive 83.5% renewable share under heavy overcast, with 2.5 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 41%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 27%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 6%
84%
Renewable share
31.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.6 GW
Solar
64.8 GW
Total generation
+2.6 GW
Net export
35.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.8°C / 24 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
97.0% / 94.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
115
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 26.3 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the canvas as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across a flat central-German plateau, rotors spinning visibly in strong wind. Solar 17.6 GW fills the mid-ground left-of-centre as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels under a heavily overcast sky, their surfaces reflecting pale diffuse light. Wind offshore 5.2 GW appears at the far right horizon as a distant line of larger turbines emerging from a hazy grey North Sea horizon. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of modest industrial plants with wood-chip silos and thin steam columns at the left middle ground. Brown coal 3.9 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy steam plumes rising into the grey sky. Hard coal 3.6 GW sits just right of the brown coal as a smaller power station with a single tall smokestack and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel. Natural gas 3.3 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a polished exhaust stack and heat-recovery unit tucked between the coal plant and the biomass cluster. Hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small weir and turbine house beside a swollen river in the foreground. The sky is 97% overcast—a thick uniform blanket of grey stratus with only faint brightness where the afternoon sun tries to press through at about 50 degrees elevation, casting flat, shadowless daylight at 16:00 Berlin time. The landscape is early spring: bare deciduous trees just beginning to bud, damp brown-green fields, patches of mud. Temperature near 8 °C gives a raw, chilly atmosphere with moisture in the air. The mood is calm and industrious, not oppressive—price is moderate. 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 slate greys, muted greens, and earth tones, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with slight haze toward the horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV frame, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.