Solar at 33.7 GW under full overcast drives 90% renewable share and near-zero prices with 6.5 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 63%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
9.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.7 GW
Solar
53.5 GW
Total generation
+6.5 GW
Net export
1.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.6°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 98.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
70
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 33.7 GW dominates the composition, filling the entire right two-thirds of the scene as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon across gentle green May hillsides. Wind onshore 7.2 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles on lattice towers set along a ridge in the centre-left middle ground, blades turning slowly in moderate wind. Wind offshore 2.1 GW is glimpsed as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-left horizon above a faint strip of grey sea. Brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising vertically in calm air, beside a conveyor belt carrying dark lignite. Biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a cylindrical silo and wood-chip stockpile just behind the cooling towers. Natural gas 1.9 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single slim exhaust stack and minimal exhaust, tucked between the biomass plant and the wind turbines. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a reservoir visible in a valley in the far centre background. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single small smokestack with a wisp of grey smoke near the lignite plant. Daytime at 14:00 in May: full diffuse daylight with no shadows, the entire sky a uniform blanket of bright white-grey overcast at 100% cloud cover, no sun disk visible. The atmosphere is calm and luminous — low-price tranquility. Temperature 14.6°C: lush spring-green grass, fresh beech and birch leaves, wildflowers in meadows around the solar arrays. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.