Wind dominates at 27.9 GW with solid solar support under full overcast; brown coal holds steady baseload at 5.4 GW.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 40%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 26%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
82%
Renewable share
27.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
15.5 GW
Solar
59.9 GW
Total generation
+2.9 GW
Net export
68.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.4°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 3.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
127
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 23.7 GW spans the entire right half and recedes deep into the background as vast fields of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind across rolling green summer hills; wind offshore 4.2 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey sea inlet. Solar 15.5 GW fills the centre-right foreground as expansive arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels arranged in neat rows across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting the diffuse pewter light of the overcast sky—no direct sun visible. Brown coal 5.4 GW dominates the left portion as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the low cloud ceiling, with conveyor belts of dark lignite visible at their base. Natural gas 3.4 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a wood-clad industrial facility with a modest smokestack and stacked timber logs nearby, positioned between the gas plant and the wind turbines. Hard coal 1.9 GW shows as a single smaller coal plant with a rectangular chimney and coal stockpile, adjacent to the brown coal complex on the far left. Hydro 2.0 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse nestled along a tree-lined river in the left foreground. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover—a uniform heavy grey blanket with no blue visible—yet it is full mid-afternoon daylight at 16:00 Berlin time, so the scene is bright and evenly lit with soft shadowless illumination. Temperature is mild at 17°C; vegetation is lush early-summer green, meadow grasses tall, deciduous trees fully leafed. The atmosphere carries a slightly heavy, humid quality reflecting the 68 EUR/MWh price—not oppressive but dense and weighted. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich layered colour, visible expressive brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, dramatic sense of scale between human industry and the natural landscape. Each energy technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, PV panel grid patterns, hyperbolic cooling tower curvature, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels, no people prominently featured.