Solar at 28.4 GW and onshore wind at 17.2 GW drive a 75.6% renewable share with 4.1 GW net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 25%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 41%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 10%
76%
Renewable share
17.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.4 GW
Solar
68.6 GW
Total generation
+4.1 GW
Net export
86.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.6°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
96.0% / 246.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
170
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 28.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland; onshore wind 17.2 GW fills the upper-right and centre-right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning steadily in moderate wind; brown coal 7.2 GW anchors the far left as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; natural gas 5.2 GW appears left-of-centre as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and a thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.3 GW sits beside it as a smaller conventional station with a single large smokestack and coal conveyor visible; biomass 4.3 GW is depicted as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a modest chimney and timber storage yard; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with a powerhouse nestled along a stream in the mid-ground; offshore wind 0.6 GW is faintly suggested on the far horizon as a few distant turbines barely visible in haze. The sky is heavily overcast at 96% cloud cover — a uniform blanket of grey-white stratus — but full mid-morning daylight at 10:00 illuminates the scene with flat, bright, shadowless diffuse light. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, matching an 86.4 EUR/MWh price. Spring vegetation: fresh green grass, budding deciduous trees, rapeseed fields showing early yellow. Temperature around 10°C gives a cool, damp feel with mist lingering in valleys. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich colour palette of sage greens, steel greys, and cloud whites, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective fading the distant turbines into haze. Meticulous engineering detail on every technology: turbine nacelles, rotor hubs, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic curves with condensation drift, gas turbine intake cowlings. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent — the machines and landscape are the subject.