Strong onshore wind and moderate solar under full overcast drive 73% renewables; brown coal holds baseload at 9.8 GW.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 24%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 15%
73%
Renewable share
27.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
15.6 GW
Solar
65.7 GW
Total generation
+4.4 GW
Net export
64.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.7°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 136.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
198
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 23.9 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling central German hills with dormant early-spring brown-green vegetation; wind offshore 3.2 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a faint grey sea line; solar 15.6 GW fills the mid-ground as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled on ground-mount racks, their surfaces reflecting the diffuse grey light; brown coal 9.8 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes drifting rightward; natural gas 4.4 GW sits left of centre as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and low rectangular turbine hall; hard coal 3.8 GW appears as a smaller coal plant behind the gas facility with conveyor belts and a single squat cooling tower; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a medium industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest chimney with faint exhaust; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a stream in the foreground valley. Full daylight at 3 PM but entirely overcast—the sky is a heavy uniform blanket of grey-white stratus clouds with no blue patches and no direct sun visible, casting flat shadowless light across the landscape. Temperature 7.7°C: bare deciduous trees, patches of pale early grass, no snow. Wind at 12.7 km/h animates the turbine blades and bends the grass slightly. The atmosphere feels weighty and close, befitting a 64.5 EUR/MWh price—muted tones, a sense of industrial seriousness. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism—rich layered colour in muted earth tones, greens, and greys, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze softening the distant cooling towers and offshore turbines, meticulous engineering detail on every technology. No text, no labels.