Wind and solar together deliver over 57 GW under full cloud cover, pushing Germany into strong net export at low prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 40%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
29.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.1 GW
Solar
70.7 GW
Total generation
+14.9 GW
Net export
20.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.8°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 79.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
83
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 25.3 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as vast rolling green hills covered with dozens of three-blade wind turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, their rotors spinning visibly in moderate wind; solar 28.1 GW fills the centre-right foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled on mounting racks across flat agricultural land, reflecting pale diffuse light; brown coal 4.3 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles; wind offshore 3.7 GW appears on the distant left horizon as a row of offshore turbines standing in a grey North Sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a tall cylindrical silo, wood-chip storage, and a modest smokestack with thin exhaust; natural gas 2.4 GW sits centre-left as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and slim vapour trail; hard coal 1.6 GW is a smaller classical power station with a rectangular boiler house and single smokestack beside a coal yard, positioned behind the gas plant; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway in a wooded valley in the far background. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover—a uniform sheet of soft grey-white stratus—with full midday daylight diffused evenly, no direct sun visible, casting flat shadowless illumination across the spring landscape. Vegetation is lush mid-May green: fresh beech and birch leaves, yellow rapeseed fields, grass meadows. Temperature around 10°C gives a cool crispness. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting a low electricity price—no oppressive haze, just gentle expansiveness. 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 impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding into misty distance—but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower, and smokestack. The composition balances pastoral beauty with industrial realism. No text, no labels.