Strong solar and wind drive 75% renewables at midday, pushing 17 GW of net exports despite persistent coal baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 35%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 10%
75%
Renewable share
26.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.4 GW
Solar
77.9 GW
Total generation
+16.9 GW
Net export
53.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.8°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 271.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
172
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 27.4 GW dominates the foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting a bright but diffused midday sky; wind onshore 22.4 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of towering three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in steady wind; wind offshore 3.8 GW appears as a distant row of larger turbines on the far horizon above a grey-blue sea glimpsed through a valley; brown coal 7.8 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes that drift rightward in the wind; hard coal 5.6 GW stands beside them as smaller rectangular power station buildings with tall chimneys trailing thinner grey smoke; natural gas 5.8 GW appears as two compact CCGT plants with single silver exhaust stacks emitting faint heat haze; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad industrial facility with a short cylindrical stack and woodchip storage silos; hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse nestled along a stream in the lower right corner. The sky is fully overcast at 100% cloud cover but with bright diffused daylight appropriate to 14:00 in late March — no direct sun disc visible, yet strong ambient illumination reaching the ground, and 271 W/m² of direct radiation creating subtle brighter patches in the cloud layer. Temperature is a cool 8.8°C; vegetation shows early spring — bare deciduous trees with first tiny buds, patches of green grass emerging among brown fields, a few early wildflowers. Wind at 19.7 km/h animates grass, loose clothing on distant figures, and turbine blades at moderate speed. The moderate price of 53.5 EUR/MWh is reflected in a neutral atmospheric mood — neither oppressive nor serene, simply a workaday industrial landscape under soft white light. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into hazy distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower, the composition balancing industrial might against pastoral terrain. No text, no labels, no human figures in the immediate foreground.