Solar at 39.8 GW drives 87% renewable share and near-zero prices under full overcast at midday.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 59%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
87%
Renewable share
13.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
39.8 GW
Solar
67.3 GW
Total generation
+1.0 GW
Net export
1.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.2°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 125.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
89
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 39.8 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly 60% of the composition from centre to right, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a flat, overcast sky. Wind onshore 7.6 GW appears as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on gentle hills behind the solar fields, blades turning slowly in moderate wind. Wind offshore 5.4 GW is suggested by a row of larger turbines visible on the distant hazy horizon line at far right. Brown coal 4.2 GW occupies the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising vertically into the still, overcast air, flanked by a Lusatian-style lignite power station with conveyor belts. Biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded storage silo and a modest smokestack emitting thin vapour, placed left of centre. Natural gas 3.3 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat-recovery unit, positioned between the biomass plant and the cooling towers. Hydro 1.4 GW is depicted as a small concrete run-of-river weir with a low dam and turbine house nestled along a river in the foreground. Hard coal 1.2 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single square chimney and coal bunker at far left. The time is 11:00 on an April morning: full diffuse daylight but no direct sun, the entire sky a uniform blanket of pale grey-white stratiform cloud at 100% cover, with soft indirect illumination casting virtually no shadows. Bare branches on scattered deciduous trees are just beginning to show the first tiny green buds of early spring; grass is fresh green. The atmosphere is calm and muted, matching a near-zero electricity price — no drama, no oppressive weight, just quiet productive overcast stillness. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — with rich muted colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into the grey distance. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, lattice sub-structures, PV module grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic curves, steam thermodynamics. No text, no labels.