Solar dominates at 26.6 GW alongside 16.2 GW wind, creating a 4.9 GW net export and low prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 45%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 8%
83%
Renewable share
16.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.6 GW
Solar
58.9 GW
Total generation
+4.9 GW
Net export
21.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.3°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
71.0% / 133.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
118
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 26.6 GW dominates the right half and foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their blue-grey surfaces catching diffuse morning light through a high overcast sky; wind onshore 10.5 GW fills the mid-ground as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers slowly rotating on forested ridges; wind offshore 5.7 GW appears at the far right horizon as a line of larger turbines standing in a grey-blue sea glimpsed between hills; brown coal 4.8 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the clouds; biomass 4.6 GW appears as a group of mid-sized industrial buildings with cylindrical silos and a single modest smokestack near the cooling towers; natural gas 3.8 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with paired exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer; hard coal 1.5 GW is a single smaller power station with a rectangular boiler house and one squat chimney, partially obscured behind the gas units; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway visible in a narrow valley on the far left. The time is 09:00 in central Germany in early April: full but muted daylight, the sun low in the east behind 71% cloud cover creating a bright silvery-white sky with occasional thin blue gaps, soft diffuse shadows on the ground. Temperature is a cool 5.3°C: early spring vegetation with budding trees barely leafed out, brown-green meadows, patches of last frost in shaded hollows. Moderate breeze bends young grass and visibly drives the turbine blades. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the low electricity price—no oppressive haze, just a quiet luminous overcast. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting—Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth married to meticulous industrial-engineering accuracy. Rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic scale contrasts between delicate PV panel grids and monumental cooling towers, golden-grey tonal harmony across the entire panorama. No text, no labels, no people in the immediate foreground.