Wind (25.6 GW) and overcast solar (20.4 GW) dominate at 84% renewables; coal and gas cover residual load.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 33%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 7%
84%
Renewable share
25.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.4 GW
Solar
61.2 GW
Total generation
+3.0 GW
Net export
96.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.9°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
114
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 19.8 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across a rolling central German landscape of fresh spring-green fields and budding deciduous trees, their rotors spinning briskly in strong wind. Wind offshore 5.8 GW appears in the far-right background as a line of turbines standing in a grey North Sea horizon. Solar 20.4 GW fills the mid-ground with extensive arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled south across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting only diffuse grey-white light — no direct sunlight, no sun disk visible. Brown coal 4.5 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the overcast, with a lignite conveyor belt and open-pit mine edge visible. Hard coal 2.7 GW sits just right of the brown coal as a smaller coal-fired station with a single tall smokestack and rectangular boiler house. Natural gas 2.5 GW appears as a compact modern CCGT plant with a single sleek exhaust stack and smaller vapour plume beside the coal plants. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fed power plant with a cylindrical silo and low chimney trailing thin grey smoke, nestled among trees to the left-centre. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir with foaming white water in the lower foreground. The sky is entirely overcast with a thick, uniform layer of grey-white stratus clouds at 14:00 in May — full diffuse daylight, bright but shadowless, no sun visible anywhere. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 96 EUR/MWh price: the clouds press low, air feels dense, colours are muted and slightly desaturated. Temperature is a cool 6.9°C — the spring vegetation is fresh but restrained, some trees still bare. Wind bends the grass and ripples puddles. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich tonal depth, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric perspective with industrial subjects rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.