Solar (25.5 GW) and wind (15.3 GW) dominate a heavily overcast mid-morning grid, driving 7.4 GW of net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 25%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 47%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 7%
86%
Renewable share
15.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.5 GW
Solar
53.8 GW
Total generation
+7.5 GW
Net export
58.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.0°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
90% / 97.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
95
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 25.5 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling farmland; wind onshore 13.3 GW fills the right third and background ridgelines as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers slowly rotating; wind offshore 2.0 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far horizon line; brown coal 3.7 GW occupies the far left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising vertically; biomass 4.1 GW sits left-centre as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack with pale exhaust; natural gas 2.3 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer; hard coal 1.2 GW is a smaller coal plant with a conventional rectangular cooling tower partially obscured behind the brown coal towers; hydro 1.7 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley in the middle distance. TIME AND LIGHT: full mid-morning daylight at 10:00, but heavily overcast with a uniform 90% grey cloud ceiling—flat, diffuse illumination with no direct shadows, the sky a layered pearl-grey with occasional darker patches, light bright but soft. WEATHER: temperature 9°C, cool spring atmosphere with fresh green grass and young deciduous leaves on trees, light breeze bending wildflowers. Moderate price atmosphere: sky heavy but not oppressive, a sense of steady calm industrial activity. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision—rich layered colour in muted greens, greys, and steel blues, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant turbines, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve and concrete texture. No text, no labels.