Solar supplies 64% of generation at 41.5 GW under full overcast; lignite and light wind fill the balance.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 65%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 10%
81%
Renewable share
4.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.5 GW
Solar
64.4 GW
Total generation
+2.8 GW
Net export
65.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.2°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 130.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
139
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 41.5 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering more than half the composition from foreground to mid-ground, their glass surfaces reflecting a pale white-grey sky. Brown coal 6.7 GW appears as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers on the left, rising above the treeline with thick white steam plumes drifting sluggishly in the still air. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip CHP plant with a tall exhaust stack and fuel storage silos just behind the solar field. Wind onshore 3.7 GW shows as a modest row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, blades barely turning in the light breeze. Natural gas 2.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with twin exhaust stacks and a smaller cooling unit tucked near the coal complex. Hard coal 2.7 GW is a single coal-fired power station with a rectangular boiler house and single tall chimney emitting a thin grey plume. Hydro 1.6 GW is suggested by a small reservoir dam visible in a valley to the far right. Wind offshore 1.0 GW appears as tiny turbine silhouettes on the extreme horizon. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform, heavy, white-grey blanket with no blue breaks and no direct sunlight, yet it is full midday brightness, casting soft shadowless illumination across the landscape. The atmosphere feels mildly oppressive — thick, still, warm-grey light consistent with a 65 EUR/MWh price. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green grass and budding deciduous trees at 12°C. The air is calm, no flags fluttering, no dynamic motion. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous overcast tonalism — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, lattice tower, PV module frame, cooling tower fluting, and industrial stack. No text, no labels.