Solar at 26 GW dominates a 74% renewable mix, with brown coal baseload and elevated carbon costs sustaining a 92 EUR/MWh price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 44%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 15%
74%
Renewable share
13.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.1 GW
Solar
59.7 GW
Total generation
+3.7 GW
Net export
92.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.9°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
96% / 176.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
185
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 26.1 GW dominates the centre and right of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural lowlands, their surfaces reflecting diffuse grey-white light. Brown coal 8.8 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky, with conveyor belts and open-pit terraces visible below. Wind onshore 6.4 GW appears as a line of modern three-blade turbines on low ridges in the middle distance, their rotors turning slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 6.7 GW is suggested by a row of turbines on the far horizon above a distant grey coastline. Natural gas 4.3 GW stands as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer, positioned between the coal complex and the solar fields. Hard coal 2.2 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single square chimney and thin smoke trail, adjacent to the lignite plant. Biomass 4.1 GW is a modest wood-fired plant with a rounded silo and low stack near the foreground edge. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir on a stream in the near foreground. The sky is heavily overcast at 96% cloud cover—a thick, uniform blanket of stratocumulus in shades of pewter and ash, but it is full mid-afternoon daylight so the scene is brightly lit in a flat, shadowless manner with some direct radiation breaking through as a brighter disc behind the clouds. The temperature is near 6°C: bare deciduous trees with the faintest hint of green buds, dormant brown grass, patches of mud. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price—the air is dense, the clouds press low, the palette muted and weighty. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, dramatic compositional scale contrasting human industry against an immense clouded sky. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, panel arrays, cooling tower parabolic profiles, steam thermodynamics. No text, no labels.