Solar at 31.6 GW and wind at 23.8 GW drive 88% renewables, yielding 8.2 GW net exports under overcast skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 46%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
23.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.6 GW
Solar
68.6 GW
Total generation
+8.2 GW
Net export
20.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.2°C / 24 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 78.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
82
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 31.6 GW dominates the centre and right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land, their surfaces reflecting pale diffuse light; wind onshore 21.1 GW fills the mid-ground and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in strong wind; wind offshore 2.7 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a faint strip of grey sea; brown coal 4.0 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; natural gas 2.4 GW sits left-centre as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and thin vapour trails; hard coal 1.5 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a single tall chimney beside a coal conveyor; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a rounded wood-chip silo and short stack releasing pale smoke at the left edge; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and weir visible in a river valley in the far distance. TIME AND LIGHT: early afternoon in May, full daylight but entirely overcast — the sky is a uniform blanket of dense grey-white stratus from horizon to zenith, no blue, no direct sun, soft shadowless illumination. The landscape is lush spring green — fresh beech and birch leaves, rapeseed fields not yet yellow, cool 9°C air suggested by a slight mist along the river. Wind is visible through bent grasses, spinning rotors, and streaming steam plumes leaning to the east. ATMOSPHERE: calm, open, expansive — low electricity price conveyed by a serene, unhurried quality to the light and space. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth married to Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid-line, every cooling tower's hyperbolic concrete curve. No text, no labels.