Solar at 27 GW and wind at 15 GW drive Germany's grid to nearly 90% renewables under full overcast.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 50%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
15.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.1 GW
Solar
53.8 GW
Total generation
+2.1 GW
Net export
21.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.3°C / 0 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 110.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
69
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 27.1 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across flat farmland, occupying roughly half the canvas; wind onshore 9.6 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers marching across rolling hills in the upper-right background; wind offshore 5.6 GW is suggested by a distant line of large turbines visible on a grey sea horizon at far right; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a tall exhaust stack and small steam plume at centre-left; brown coal 2.5 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising at the far left; natural gas 2.4 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with a single polished exhaust stack beside the cooling towers; hydro 1.5 GW is a small concrete dam with spillway tucked into a wooded valley at the lower-left corner; hard coal 0.7 GW is a single modest smokestack barely visible behind the lignite plant. The sky is fully overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform, luminous pewter-grey blanket with no blue patches, yet it is full daytime at 09:00, so ambient light is bright and even, casting soft diffused shadows. The air temperature is 5.3 °C in early April: bare deciduous trees show the first faint green buds, grass is pale and dew-covered, patches of late frost linger in shadows. Wind at ground level is calm — no motion in flags or vegetation — yet distant turbine blades rotate slowly from upper-altitude winds. The low day-ahead price creates a calm, open, spacious atmosphere. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette of slate greys, muted greens, and steel blues, visible thick brushwork, atmospheric depth with sfumato haze toward the horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.