Strong onshore wind (24.2 GW) and diffuse solar (14.8 GW) drive 79% renewables under full overcast, with 3 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 24%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 9%
79%
Renewable share
29.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.8 GW
Solar
62.3 GW
Total generation
+3.0 GW
Net export
47.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.4°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 4.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
146
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 24.2 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green March farmland, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; solar 14.8 GW occupies the centre-right foreground as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled toward the sky, their glass surfaces reflecting only dull grey light under total overcast; brown coal 5.8 GW fills the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge with the low cloud ceiling; wind offshore 5.0 GW appears on the distant left horizon as a line of turbines rising from a grey North Sea strip barely visible through haze; natural gas 4.2 GW is rendered centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with paired exhaust stacks releasing thin transparent heat shimmer; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial plant with a rounded silo and a modest smokestack trailing wispy white vapour; hard coal 3.1 GW sits beside the lignite plant as a smaller power station with a single rectangular cooling tower and conveyor belt structure; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam with spillway visible in a valley to the far right. The sky is completely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform heavy grey-white blanket pressing low over the landscape with no sun disk visible, diffuse flat daylight at 3 PM illuminating the scene evenly with no shadows. Temperature 12.4°C: early spring — grass bright green, bare deciduous trees beginning to show tiny buds, patches of old snow gone. The atmosphere feels moderately oppressive reflecting the 47 EUR/MWh price — humid, weighty clouds, industrial steam blending into overcast. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette of mossy greens, slate greys, ivory steam, and muted steel blues — visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading the offshore turbines into haze. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with anemometers, three-blade rotors with pitch mechanisms, PV panel bus ribbons, cooling tower parabolic geometry, gas turbine air intakes. The composition evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale — tiny human figures on a path dwarfed by the vast energy infrastructure. No text, no labels.