Solar at 39.3 GW leads an 85% renewable mix under overcast skies, pushing 1.9 GW of net exports at low prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 60%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 7%
85%
Renewable share
10.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
39.3 GW
Solar
65.5 GW
Total generation
+1.9 GW
Net export
21.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.1°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 223.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
107
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 39.3 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly 60% of the canvas from the centre to the right; wind onshore 8.4 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers scattered along ridgelines in the middle distance, their rotors turning gently in moderate breeze; wind offshore 1.9 GW is visible far in the background as a faint cluster of turbines on a hazy horizon line; brown coal 4.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a lignite power station with two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes; natural gas 3.2 GW sits beside it as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and modest vapour trail; hard coal 2.1 GW appears as a smaller conventional boiler house with a single rectangular stack; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a wood-chip fired combined heat and power plant with a distinctive cylindrical silo and low steam vent; hydro 1.4 GW is a small concrete run-of-river dam along a tree-lined stream in the lower-left corner. The sky is fully overcast with a uniform bright white-grey cloud layer, diffuse daylight at 10 a.m. illuminating the scene evenly with no harsh shadows — spring morning light filtering through high stratus. The atmosphere feels calm and open, not oppressive, reflecting a low electricity price. Vegetation is fresh April green: budding deciduous trees, bright young grass, yellow rapeseed fields beginning to bloom, temperature around 12 °C suggesting light jackets on any distant figures. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich colour palette with cool greens, warm ochres, and silvery greys, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into soft haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve and concrete ribbing. The composition balances the pastoral beauty of renewable infrastructure against the stoic industrial geometry of the thermal plants on the left, unified under the quiet luminous overcast. No text, no labels.