Strong onshore wind and diffuse solar dominate Germany's fully overcast grid, driving 6.5 GW net exports and near-zero prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 33%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 7%
86%
Renewable share
29.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.3 GW
Solar
66.8 GW
Total generation
+6.6 GW
Net export
1.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.9°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 28.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
100
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 25.4 GW dominates the scene, filling the right half and receding deep into the background as hundreds of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind, stretching across rolling green early-spring farmland with fresh shoots; wind offshore 4.2 GW appears in the far right distance as a line of turbines rising from a grey North Sea horizon glimpsed through a valley. Solar 22.3 GW occupies the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on angled racking systems reflecting the flat grey-white light of a completely overcast sky — no direct sun, no shadows, only diffuse illumination. Brown coal 4.4 GW anchors the left as two massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting lazy steam plumes drifting right, beside a lignite conveyor and open-pit mine edge. Biomass 4.0 GW sits centre-left as a cluster of industrial wood-chip silos and a modest stack with pale exhaust. Natural gas 3.3 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer. Hard coal 2.0 GW is a smaller coal-fired station with a rectangular cooling tower and dark conveyor belt, partially behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse on a stream in the left foreground. The sky is a uniform 100% overcast blanket of layered stratus clouds in soft pearl-grey and cream tones — full midday daylight at 14:00 but no blue sky, no sun disk visible, lighting is bright yet completely diffuse. Temperature 12.9°C: early spring atmosphere, bare deciduous trees with swelling buds, patches of green grass, a mild softness in the air. The low 1.2 EUR/MWh price is reflected in a calm, expansive, unhurried atmosphere — open farmland stretching to every horizon, no tension or oppression. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — combined with meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, PV module busbar, cooling tower concrete texture, and conveyor structure. No text, no labels.