Strong onshore wind and substantial solar drive 84% renewables, with 9.9 GW net export and firm thermal baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 33%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
84%
Renewable share
26.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.8 GW
Solar
63.4 GW
Total generation
+10.0 GW
Net export
74.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.1°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
72% / 203.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
116
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 23.9 GW dominates the right half and background as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across a rolling green spring landscape, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind. Solar 20.8 GW fills the centre-right foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled toward a partially veiled sun, their surfaces catching diffused light. Brown coal 5.5 GW occupies the left portion as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, with conveyor belts of dark lignite visible at their base. Wind offshore 3.0 GW appears as a distant line of turbines along the far horizon, their white towers tiny against the sky. Natural gas 2.7 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 2.0 GW is rendered as a smaller conventional power station with a dark smokestack and coal bunkers adjacent to the lignite plant. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with rounded digesters and a modest chimney, set among farmland near the solar arrays. Hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and spillway nestled in a wooded valley at the far left edge. The sky is 72% overcast with layered grey-white clouds, but broken in places to let shafts of direct afternoon sunlight (203 W/m²) stream through at a 16:00 angle, casting warm golden patches across the PV fields and turbine blades. The atmosphere is slightly heavy and hazy — not ominous but dense, reflecting a moderate-to-firm electricity price. Spring vegetation is lush but cool-toned, with fresh green grasses and budding deciduous trees at 10°C, and a light breeze animating the scene. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.