Solar at 34.8 GW and wind at 17.1 GW drive an 89.6% renewable grid with modest net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 54%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
17.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.8 GW
Solar
64.1 GW
Total generation
+2.5 GW
Net export
37.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.8°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
93.0% / 323.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
73
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 34.8 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire foreground and centre of the composition, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a bright but overcast sky. Wind onshore 14.2 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind, scattered across rolling green farmland. Wind offshore 2.9 GW appears as a distant row of turbines on the far horizon. Brown coal 3.8 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast. Biomass 3.6 GW sits as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack emitting faint haze, positioned left of centre. Natural gas 2.3 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a clean exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, near the coal plant. Hydro 1.9 GW is visible as a small concrete dam and reservoir nestled in a wooded valley at the right edge. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a single smaller stack behind the brown coal towers, barely active. The sky is early-afternoon full daylight but heavily overcast at 93% cloud cover, a luminous pearl-white dome with diffused brightness and no visible sun disc, yet substantial ambient light floods the landscape. Temperature of 18.8°C shows lush early-summer green vegetation — tall grass, wildflowers, leafy deciduous trees in full canopy. The moderate 37.8 EUR/MWh price is reflected in a calm, open, undramatic atmosphere. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with misty depth — combined with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.