Strong onshore wind (30.1 GW) and diffuse solar (21.5 GW) under full overcast drive 84.5% renewables and 8.6 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 41%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 29%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 8%
84%
Renewable share
35.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.5 GW
Solar
73.9 GW
Total generation
+8.6 GW
Net export
16.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.5°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 17.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
112
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 30.1 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green-brown early-spring hills from the centre to the far right, their blades visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on a grey North Sea horizon at far right; solar 21.5 GW occupies the centre-left foreground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled on metal racks, their surfaces reflecting only the flat white-grey light of total overcast — no direct sunlight, no shadows; brown coal 6.0 GW sits at the left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the leaden sky, with a lignite conveyor belt and open-pit mine edge visible; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a cluster of medium industrial buildings with short cylindrical stacks and woodchip storage domes in the left-centre middle ground; natural gas 2.8 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller heat recovery unit near the coal complex; hard coal 2.6 GW shows as a smaller traditional power station with a single square chimney and coal stockyard behind the gas plant; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with a visible turbine house along a swollen stream in the lower-left corner. The sky is entirely overcast in uniform layered stratus at 100% cloud cover, rendered in tones of silver, pewter, and pale dove-grey, with full diffuse midday daylight (13:00 CET March) — no sun disk visible, no shadows, but everything evenly and brightly lit. The temperature of 12.5°C shows in early-spring vegetation: bare deciduous trees with the first haze of green buds, patches of brown and fresh green grass, damp earth. The low electricity price of 16.1 EUR/MWh is evoked by an open, calm, spacious composition with wide vistas and gentle atmospheric perspective. 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 confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous sky treatment — but with meticulous modern engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. The painting conveys the monumental industrial-pastoral character of Germany's energy transition. No text, no labels, no people.