Strong onshore wind and robust diffuse solar drive 82% renewable share, pushing 5.3 GW net exports at low prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 30%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 10%
82%
Renewable share
31.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.6 GW
Solar
71.2 GW
Total generation
+5.3 GW
Net export
12.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.1°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98% / 54.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
130
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 27.3 GW dominates the right two-fifths of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling central-German farmland, blades spinning briskly in moderate wind. Solar 21.6 GW fills the centre-right foreground as vast arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on low-angle racking across flat fields, their surfaces reflecting the pale diffuse light of a heavily overcast sky. Brown coal 7.2 GW occupies the left portion as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the grey cloud ceiling, with conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles visible at their base. Wind offshore 4.4 GW appears on the far-right horizon as a line of larger turbines fading into haze above a distant flat coastline. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with cylindrical digesters, a modest stack, and stacked wood-chip stores. Natural gas 3.7 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with single tall exhaust stacks releasing thin transparent heat shimmer. Hard coal 2.0 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station behind the gas plant, with a rectangular boiler house, single chimney, and a small coal yard. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible along a stream in the left foreground. The sky is fully overcast at 98% cloud cover — a flat, luminous pearl-grey ceiling of stratus with no blue sky visible, lit by midday diffuse daylight from above, casting soft shadowless light across the entire landscape. Temperature is 6°C in mid-March: bare deciduous trees with only the faintest swelling buds, dormant brown grass, patches of old snow in shaded hollows. The atmosphere is calm and unoppressive, reflecting a low electricity price — open, expansive, quietly productive. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — with rich colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid pattern, cooling tower ribbing, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.