Strong late-afternoon solar and solid wind drive 88.7% renewables, pushing 8.6 GW of net exports at low prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 43%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
89%
Renewable share
22.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.1 GW
Solar
62.4 GW
Total generation
+8.6 GW
Net export
22.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.4°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 459.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
77
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 27.1 GW dominates the centre and right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle green spring farmland, their surfaces blazing with reflected golden-orange light; wind onshore 17.1 GW fills the mid-ground and right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate breeze; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears as a distant row of turbines on the far-right horizon above a faint coastal line; biomass 4.3 GW is represented centre-left as a cluster of wood-chip-fed power stations with modest stacks and thin white exhaust; brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the far left as two large hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with gentle steam plumes rising; natural gas 2.6 GW sits just right of the cooling towers as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer; hard coal 1.4 GW appears as a smaller conventional boiler house with a single square chimney beside the lignite towers; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small river with a weir and low dam in the left foreground. The sky is a dusk sky at 17:00 in late April in central Germany — the sun is low in the west, casting a deep warm orange-gold light across the entire landscape, with the upper sky transitioning from pale blue to soft apricot near the horizon; zero cloud cover means the sky is perfectly clear. Spring vegetation is lush — fresh bright-green grass, young wheat fields, budding deciduous trees — at 17.4°C the air feels mild. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the low 22 EUR/MWh price — no oppression, no haze, just luminous clarity. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic Romantic light — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic concrete shell. The composition reads as a sweeping panoramic masterwork of the modern industrial-pastoral landscape. No text, no labels.