Wind and early solar dominate at 85.7% renewables as Germany exports roughly 3 GW at dawn.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 25%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 8%
86%
Renewable share
19.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
10.2 GW
Solar
41.2 GW
Total generation
+3.1 GW
Net export
78.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.7°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
13% / 6.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
100
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.2 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green hills occupying roughly 40% of the composition from centre to right; wind offshore 3.2 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines standing in a grey North Sea strip along the far right horizon; solar 10.2 GW fills the foreground-left as a broad field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels angled toward the barely-risen sun, catching the first pale gold rays, occupying about 25% of the image; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed power station with a modest stack and wood piles, about 11% of the scene; brown coal 3.2 GW appears as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes on the far left, about 8% of the scene; natural gas 2.1 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and clean silver piping, nestled between the biomass plant and cooling towers; hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete dam with spilling water in a valley in the middle distance; hard coal 0.7 GW is a single dark-bricked stack with faint smoke behind the brown coal towers. TIME OF DAY: dawn at 07:00 in early May — the sky is deep blue-grey overhead transitioning to a pale luminous band of cold gold and rose just above the eastern horizon; no direct sunlight yet strikes the landscape, but a soft pre-dawn glow illuminates everything in cool blue and faint amber tones. The temperature is a cool 5.7°C: light frost clings to grass between the solar panels, and breath-like mist hangs in low hollows. Cloud cover is minimal at 13%, with a nearly clear sky showing only a few wispy cirrus clouds. Wind speed at ground level is only 1.6 km/h, so the landscape is calm and still — turbine blades turn slowly, and steam plumes rise nearly vertical. Spring vegetation is fresh green but subdued in the cool morning light, with blossoming hedgerows and young wheat fields. The atmosphere carries a slightly heavy, industrial quality reflecting the 78 EUR/MWh price — a faint haze and amber tint in the lower atmosphere, not oppressive but present. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich colour palette of deep blues, pale golds, and muted greens; visible expressive brushwork; atmospheric depth with layered distance from foreground panels to far horizon turbines; meticulous engineering accuracy on all technology elements; dramatic Romantic composition balancing nature and industry. No text, no labels, no human figures.