Solar at 40 GW dominates under overcast skies; brown coal and modest wind fill the remainder as Germany net-exports 5 GW.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 66%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 9%
84%
Renewable share
4.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
40.1 GW
Solar
60.3 GW
Total generation
+5.1 GW
Net export
73.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.2°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 139.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
120
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 40.1 GW dominates the scene, filling the entire right two-thirds of the canvas as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon across gentle Central German farmland in spring. Brown coal 5.3 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky. Wind onshore 3.5 GW appears as a scattered line of modern three-blade turbines on a low ridge behind the solar fields, their rotors turning slowly. Natural gas 2.3 GW is a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and a low heat-recovery building nestled between the coal complex and the solar arrays. Hard coal 2.3 GW sits beside the brown coal as a single large conventional plant with a tall rectangular boiler house and smokestack. Wind offshore 1.5 GW is suggested by tiny turbines visible on the far hazy horizon line. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam with cascading water in a wooded valley at the left edge. Biomass 4.0 GW is represented by a cluster of cylindrical digesters and a modest smokestack amid green fields near the centre-left. The sky is entirely overcast with a thick, luminous pearl-grey cloud layer—full midday daylight at 13:00 in May diffuses evenly with no shadows, giving a bright but flat illumination. The air feels mildly oppressive, slightly hazy, reflecting the 73.7 EUR/MWh price—not threatening, but weighty. Spring vegetation is lush: fresh green grass, rapeseed fields showing yellow at the margins, deciduous trees in full young leaf. Temperature is mild at 16°C. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth crossed with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision. Rich colour palette of silvery greens, slate greys, and warm earth tones. Visible impasto brushwork in the cloud layer and steam plumes. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, panel junction boxes, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT heat exchangers. No text, no labels.