Wind and solar dominate at nearly 79% renewable share; 6.7 GW net exports under overcast but productive mid-March conditions.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 37%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 30%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 12%
79%
Renewable share
28.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.5 GW
Solar
69.0 GW
Total generation
+6.7 GW
Net export
42.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.5°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
95% / 152.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
154
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 25.4 GW dominates the right half and receding centre of the scene as vast rows of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across a rolling mid-German plateau, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; solar 20.5 GW fills the lower-centre foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels under diffuse daylight, their surfaces reflecting pale grey sky; brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the overcast; natural gas 3.6 GW appears as two compact CCGT plants with slim exhaust stacks and modest heat shimmer, positioned left of centre; hard coal 3.0 GW is rendered as a single large power station with rectangular boiler house and a tall chimney emitting a thin grey ribbon of smoke, placed behind the gas units; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and short smokestack near the left foreground; wind offshore 3.5 GW is suggested on the far-right horizon as a faint line of turbines standing in a strip of distant grey sea visible through a valley gap; hydro 1.1 GW is depicted as a small run-of-river weir with a visible spillway in the lower-left corner. The sky is 95% overcast—a heavy blanket of stratiform cloud in silver and slate, yet with enough luminosity to indicate full midday daylight filtering through; no direct sun disc visible but the landscape is evenly lit in cool diffuse light. Temperature 7.5°C: early spring dormant vegetation—bare-branched deciduous trees with the faintest green buds, brown-green fields, patches of leftover frost in shadowed hollows. Moderate atmosphere—not oppressive, reflecting the mid-range 42 EUR/MWh price—clouds thick but not threatening, air calm. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen: rich tonal palette of muted greens, steel greys, warm browns, and ivory whites; visible impasto brushwork in the clouds and steam plumes; atmospheric aerial perspective giving depth across the industrial-pastoral panorama; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower fluting, and smokestack. No text, no labels.