Solar (29.9 GW) and wind (24.7 GW) dominate at 87% renewables, driving 7.5 GW net exports and negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 28%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 44%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 5%
87%
Renewable share
24.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
29.9 GW
Solar
68.5 GW
Total generation
+7.4 GW
Net export
-0.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.6°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 226.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
87
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 29.9 GW dominates the right half and centre of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, their surfaces reflecting a pale, diffused midday light under a uniformly overcast white-grey sky; wind onshore 19.3 GW fills the upper middle and left background as dozens of towering three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning steadily in moderate wind, scattered across green early-spring fields with emerging grass and bare-branching hedgerows; wind offshore 5.4 GW appears in the far-left distance as a row of turbines on a hazy grey horizon suggesting the North Sea coast; brown coal 3.6 GW occupies the lower-left foreground as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast ceiling, alongside a lignite conveyor belt and ash-grey spoil heaps; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip silo and a single low smokestack emitting thin pale exhaust, situated just right of the cooling towers; natural gas 3.3 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and heat-recovery unit, positioned in the centre-left middle ground; hard coal 1.8 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a single hyperbolic tower and a modest coal stockyard beside rail tracks; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse visible along a winding river in the right foreground. The sky is a flat, luminous 100% overcast at 14:00 CET — full diffuse daylight, no shadows, bright but sunless, the clouds a milky white-grey blanket with subtle texture. The temperature is a mild 11.6°C: early spring atmosphere, damp green pastures, a few bare deciduous trees beginning to bud. The negative electricity price creates a calm, almost eerily serene mood — open, spacious, no tension in the atmosphere, a sense of overabundance. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell edge, every cooling tower's parabolic curve — a masterwork industrial landscape. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.