Solar provides 40 GW under full overcast while brown coal and gas hold firm, yielding 3.9 GW net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 64%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 10%
81%
Renewable share
4.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
40.2 GW
Solar
62.4 GW
Total generation
+3.9 GW
Net export
75.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.9°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 117.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
137
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 40.2 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition. Brown coal 6.4 GW appears at the left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast. Wind onshore 4.0 GW stands as a modest row of three-blade turbines on a ridge in the mid-background, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Natural gas 2.9 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer, placed just right of the coal complex. Hard coal 2.6 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a square chimney and conveyor belts beside a dark coal heap. Biomass 4.1 GW is shown as a wood-chip-fed plant with a distinctive short smokestack and stacked timber logs in its yard, positioned in the middle ground. Hydro 1.7 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir with churning white water on the far right beside a tree-lined riverbank. Wind offshore 0.6 GW is barely suggested as a faint line of turbines on a distant grey horizon. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, a flat pewter-grey ceiling of stratus, yet the scene is fully lit with soft diffuse May daylight at 11:00 — no shadows, no direct sun, but bright ambient illumination. The temperature is a cool 10.9 °C; spring vegetation is fresh green but subdued, with budding trees and damp grass. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, reflecting the 75.8 EUR/MWh price — a brooding weight in the low clouds pressing down. 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 confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and tonal gradation from foreground detail to misty background. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, panel wiring, cooling tower parabolic curves, conveyor infrastructure. The scene is a grand panoramic industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels.