Solar at 34.5 GW and wind at 17.2 GW drive 90% renewables under overcast skies with modest net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 54%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
17.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.5 GW
Solar
63.4 GW
Total generation
+3.2 GW
Net export
38.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.5°C / 19 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
97.0% / 456.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
69
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 34.5 GW dominates the centre and right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland; wind onshore 14.3 GW fills the mid-ground and far right as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning briskly in moderate wind; wind offshore 2.9 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far horizon; brown coal 3.6 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising into the overcast; biomass 3.6 GW sits as a compact wood-chip plant with a short exhaust stack and small steam column beside a timber storage yard; natural gas 2.0 GW is rendered as a single modern CCGT unit with a slim silver exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer; hydro 2.0 GW appears as a small concrete dam and penstock built into a wooded hillside at the left edge; hard coal 0.6 GW is a small older power station with a single brick chimney barely visible behind the cooling towers. Full midday daylight at 14:00, but the sky is almost entirely overcast — a thick, luminous silvery-grey cloud blanket covers 97% of the sky, with one narrow break where direct sunlight pours through in a bright shaft illuminating a swath of solar panels, casting sharp shadows there while the rest of the landscape sits in soft diffuse light. Temperature is a mild 19.5 °C; lush green early-summer vegetation covers fields and hillsides, wildflowers dotting meadow edges. The atmosphere is calm and balanced — no oppressive weight, gentle pastoral tone reflecting the moderate 38 EUR/MWh price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich colour palette of sage greens, pearl greys, and warm browns, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective giving depth to the rolling terrain, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV module rail, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.