Solar (30 GW) and onshore wind (17.4 GW) dominate a 79% renewable midday grid with modest net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 44%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 9%
79%
Renewable share
17.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.0 GW
Solar
67.7 GW
Total generation
+2.7 GW
Net export
83.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.1°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 158.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
147
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 30.0 GW dominates the centre and right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling spring farmland; onshore wind 17.4 GW fills the middle distance and right third as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily; brown coal 5.9 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast; natural gas 4.2 GW appears as a pair of compact CCGT units with slim exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails beside the cooling towers; hard coal 4.1 GW is rendered as a gritty coal-fired plant with a single large smokestack and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; biomass 4.2 GW shows as a modest wood-clad industrial facility with a low plume on the left-centre; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam and spillway tucked into a wooded valley in the far background; offshore wind 0.5 GW is barely visible as tiny turbines on the hazy horizon line. The sky is entirely overcast with a uniform heavy grey-white cloud layer, yet diffuse daylight is bright and even — full midday luminosity with no direct sun and no shadows, giving the landscape a flat, pearlescent quality. Spring vegetation is fresh and green but still young, with budding trees and new grass at 11°C. The atmosphere feels slightly oppressive and heavy, reflecting the elevated electricity price — the air is dense, the clouds low and unyielding. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen: rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze and aerial perspective, dramatic compositional layering from industrial foreground to pastoral middle ground to misty horizon — yet every energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, blade pitch mechanisms, PV module bus-bars, cooling tower parabolic curvature, CCGT heat recovery units. No text, no labels, no people.