Solar (28 GW) and onshore wind (18.7 GW) dominate under full overcast, driving 8.5 GW net exports at moderate prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 44%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 8%
83%
Renewable share
18.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.0 GW
Solar
63.1 GW
Total generation
+8.5 GW
Net export
70.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.4°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 92.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
118
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 28.0 GW dominates the foreground and right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land, their surfaces reflecting a pale, diffuse white-grey light; onshore wind 18.7 GW fills the middle distance and left-centre as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning slowly in light wind; brown coal 4.9 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a single broad stack and stored timber piles beside it, positioned between the coal plant and wind turbines; natural gas 3.5 GW sits as a compact modern CCGT facility with slim exhaust stacks and a visible heat shimmer, placed just left of centre; hard coal 2.3 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single square cooling tower and conveyor belt, adjacent to the brown coal complex; hydro 1.6 GW is a small run-of-river weir visible along a river in the mid-ground. The sky is entirely overcast at 14:00 in May—full diffuse daylight, bright but sunless, a uniform pearl-white to dove-grey cloud ceiling with no blue patches and no direct sun disc visible, yet the landscape is well-lit. The atmosphere feels slightly heavy and close, reflecting a 70 EUR/MWh price—not oppressive but weighted, with a faint humid haze near the horizon. Vegetation is lush mid-spring green: rapeseed fields in yellow bloom, fresh beech and linden foliage, grass bright and saturated. Temperature is cool at 11°C, suggested by figures in light jackets near the solar field. 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 aerial perspective with depth receding through multiple planes of energy infrastructure, dramatic yet measured composition. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelle housings, three-blade rotor geometry, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic curvature, steam thermodynamics. No text, no labels, no UI elements.