Solar (31.9 GW) and wind (24.0 GW) dominate at 87.8% renewables, driving 7 GW net exports at midday.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 45%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
24.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.9 GW
Solar
70.1 GW
Total generation
+7.1 GW
Net export
45.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.3°C / 25 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
84.0% / 126.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
86
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 31.9 GW dominates the centre and right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a diffuse overcast sky; wind onshore 20.8 GW spans the entire background horizon as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind, some partially veiled in low cloud; wind offshore 3.2 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon suggesting the North Sea coast; brown coal 4.1 GW occupies the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the grey overcast; biomass 4.2 GW sits in the left midground as a modest industrial plant with a tall stack and wood-chip storage silos; natural gas 2.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single slim exhaust stack and minor heat shimmer, positioned between the coal plant and the solar fields; hard coal 1.7 GW is a smaller single cooling tower and conveyor structure partly hidden behind the lignite complex; hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small reservoir dam and spillway in a valley at far left. The sky is overcast at 84%, a heavy blanket of pale grey stratocumulus with occasional brighter patches where the midday sun tries to break through, casting flat diffuse daylight across everything — no harsh shadows. Spring vegetation is fresh green but subdued, with birch and beech trees in early leaf; temperature around 8°C gives the air a cool, damp quality with light mist in low hollows. Grass bends visibly in the 25 km/h wind. The moderate electricity price is reflected in a calm but heavy atmosphere — no menace, but no brilliance either. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth crossed with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision. Rich, layered colour with visible confident brushwork, warm earth tones in the foreground yielding to cool blue-greys in the distance, dramatic compositional depth drawing the eye from the nearest solar panel to the farthest turbine on the horizon. Every piece of engineering rendered with meticulous accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, panel junction boxes, cooling tower parabolic curves, conveyor gantries. No text, no labels, no people.