Solar at 29.9 GW and wind at 16.9 GW drive 92% renewable share on a mild, overcast May evening.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 53%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
16.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
29.9 GW
Solar
56.6 GW
Total generation
-0.9 GW
Net import
32.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.8°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 495.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
53
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 29.9 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly half the composition. Wind onshore 14.7 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning moderately in a 15 km/h breeze. Wind offshore 2.2 GW appears as a faint cluster of turbines on the far horizon. Biomass 3.7 GW is represented by a modest biogas facility with cylindrical digesters and a small exhaust stack near a farmstead. Brown coal 2.3 GW occupies a small section at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin, wispy steam plumes. Natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a single slender exhaust stack releasing a faint heat shimmer. Hydro 1.7 GW is suggested by a small weir and run-of-river powerhouse along a stream in the foreground. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a barely visible stack in the distant industrial haze, nearly idle. The sky is dusk at 17:00 Berlin time: the sun is low, casting a diffuse warm orange-amber glow along the western horizon filtered through a full overcast of thin, luminous cloud cover — not dark storm clouds but a bright milky veil that still transmits strong light. The upper sky is transitioning to deeper blue-grey. Late May vegetation is lush — bright green wheat fields, wildflowers along field margins, full-leafed deciduous trees. Temperature of 22.8°C conveys a warm, pleasant atmosphere with soft haze. The moderate price of 32.2 EUR/MWh is reflected in a calm, expansive sky without oppression or tension. Style: 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 expressive brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, golden-hour luminosity suffusing the overcast sky. Each energy technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT exhaust details. The scene feels like a monumental masterwork painting of the modern German energy landscape at twilight. No text, no labels.