Strong onshore wind at 25.2 GW and diffuse solar at 14.6 GW drive Germany's grid to 82% renewable share.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 42%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 24%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 6%
82%
Renewable share
29.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.6 GW
Solar
60.3 GW
Total generation
+0.6 GW
Net export
51.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.3°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
80% / 175.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
118
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 25.2 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the panorama as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green-brown early-spring hills, rotors spinning visibly in moderate wind; solar 14.6 GW fills the lower-centre foreground as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled south, their glass surfaces reflecting muted grey-white light; wind offshore 4.3 GW appears on the far horizon as a line of turbines rising from a sliver of steely North Sea; natural gas 4.6 GW sits centre-left as a compact modern CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; brown coal 3.9 GW occupies the left background as two massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes that merge with the overcast; hard coal 2.2 GW is a smaller gritty coal-fired station with a single rectangular stack beside a dark coal stockpile; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a cluster of modest wood-chip-fuelled CHP plants with short stacks and stored timber bales near the centre; hydro 1.3 GW is a stone-walled weir and small run-of-river powerhouse beside a swollen stream in the left foreground. TIME AND LIGHT: 16:00 full daylight but heavily overcast at 80% cloud cover — a bright yet diffuse silvery-grey sky with occasional breaks where pale sunlight streams through in shafts at 175 W/m² direct radiation, casting soft shadows. Temperature 11.3°C: early spring vegetation, bare-branched oaks beginning to bud, patches of green grass among brown fields. Moderate wind animates the scene — turbine blades in mid-turn, grass bending, steam plumes sheared eastward. Atmosphere is neither oppressive nor serene, reflecting a moderate 51 EUR/MWh price — a workmanlike industrial landscape. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth married to Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic cloud formations, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels, no people in foreground.