Wind and solar each near 20 GW drive 71% renewables, with 19 GW of thermal maintaining baseload and 5.8 GW exported.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 30%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 12%
71%
Renewable share
22.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.8 GW
Solar
66.2 GW
Total generation
+5.8 GW
Net export
82.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.6°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 308.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
201
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 19.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast rolling fields of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers stretching deep into the distance across green early-spring farmland, rotors spinning visibly in moderate wind. Solar 19.8 GW fills the centre-right foreground as extensive arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels on ground-mount racks, angled southward across flat terrain, their glass surfaces reflecting diffuse grey-white light. Brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge with the overcast sky, with a lignite conveyor belt and open-pit edge visible. Hard coal 5.2 GW appears left-of-centre as a dark brick power station with tall chimneys and coal stockpiles. Natural gas 5.7 GW sits in the centre-left as a compact modern CCGT plant with sleek single exhaust stacks and a smaller vapour plume. Wind offshore 2.2 GW is suggested on the distant far-right horizon as a faint line of turbines at the edge of a flat grey sea. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a modest wood-clad plant with a rounded silo and thin wisp of steam in the centre background. Hydro 1.2 GW is represented by a small dam and reservoir nestled in low hills at the far centre-back. The sky is fully overcast at 100% cloud cover — a heavy, uniform blanket of pale grey stratus — yet light is strong and diffuse as it is late afternoon at 16:00 in late March, with full daylight still present but no direct sun visible, no blue sky, a slightly oppressive atmospheric weight suggesting the 82 EUR/MWh price. The landscape is early spring: fresh green grass just emerging, bare deciduous trees beginning to bud, patches of brown soil. Temperature around 10°C gives a cool, damp feeling. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with industrial realism — rich muted earth tones, visible impasto brushwork in the clouds and steam plumes, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.