Solar at 48.5 GW drives 87.7% renewable share and 9.0 GW net exports under near-floor prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 75%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
1.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.5 GW
Solar
64.3 GW
Total generation
+9.0 GW
Net export
3.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.6°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
82.0% / 159.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
89
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 48.5 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central-German farmland, occupying roughly three-quarters of the composition. Brown coal 3.8 GW appears in the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin wisps of white steam. Hard coal 2.3 GW sits beside them as a smaller coal plant with a rectangular boiler house, conveyor belts, and a single concrete stack trailing faint grey exhaust. Natural gas 1.9 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a slender silver exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, tucked between the coal plants. Biomass 4.2 GW occupies the mid-left as a cluster of wood-chip storage domes and a medium industrial stack with pale vapour. Hydro 1.8 GW is suggested by a small weir and powerhouse along a gentle river winding through the foreground. Wind onshore 0.9 GW appears as two or three distant three-blade turbines on a ridgeline, their rotors barely turning. Wind offshore 1.0 GW is implied by a faint row of offshore turbine silhouettes on a hazy northern horizon line. Time is 11:00 on an April morning: full diffuse daylight under a high, milky-white overcast sky at 82% cloud cover, with patches of brighter light where the sun nearly breaks through—no harsh shadows but a luminous, silver-white quality to the air. Temperature is a mild 15.6°C; spring vegetation is fresh green, with budding deciduous trees and rapeseed fields beginning to yellow. The atmosphere is calm and placid, reflecting the near-zero electricity price—open, airy sky, no oppressive mood. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into a hazy distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower shell, and smokestack. The scene reads as a grand industrial pastoral—technology and nature coexisting under a generous spring sky. No text, no labels, no people prominently featured.