Solar dominates at 30.7 GW under overcast skies; 16 GW wind and low prices drive 12.5 GW net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 46%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 6%
79%
Renewable share
16.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.7 GW
Solar
66.4 GW
Total generation
+12.5 GW
Net export
27.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.7°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 73.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
139
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 30.7 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, covering nearly half the canvas; wind onshore 9.8 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles on lattice-and-tubular towers scattered across rolling green hills in the right-centre; wind offshore 6.2 GW is visible in the far distance as a line of turbines standing in a grey sea glimpsed at the horizon; natural gas 5.4 GW is rendered as a cluster of compact CCGT power plants with slender single exhaust stacks and modest heat shimmer, positioned centre-left; biomass 4.5 GW appears as a wood-chip-fed generating station with a short cylindrical stack and adjacent timber storage yard, left of centre; hard coal 4.4 GW is depicted as a large coal plant with twin rectangular cooling towers and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel, occupying the left background; brown coal 4.1 GW sits at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky, adjacent to a terraced open-pit mine; hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam with spillway and powerhouse nestled in a valley at the far right edge. The sky is fully overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform flat white-grey ceiling with no blue breaks, yet bright with diffuse midday light at noon in early April. The air temperature is cool at 8.7°C: early spring vegetation with fresh but sparse pale-green buds on deciduous trees, brown-tinged meadows just beginning to green. A moderate breeze of 13 km/h animates the turbine blades mid-rotation and causes gentle ripples across puddles near the solar arrays. The low day-ahead price of 27 EUR/MWh is reflected in a calm, open, undramatic atmosphere — no oppressive haze, just a quiet competence across the landscape. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette of muted greens, steel greys, ivory whites, and earth tones; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with aerial perspective softening distant cooling towers and offshore turbines into haze; meticulous engineering detail on every installation — three-blade rotor geometry, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust ducting. The composition evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sense of vast contemplative space, yet filled with the monumental infrastructure of the energy transition. No text, no labels, no people.