Solar delivers 37 GW under full overcast while brown coal and gas persist, driving 8 GW net exports at midday.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 63%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 10%
82%
Renewable share
6.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.0 GW
Solar
59.1 GW
Total generation
+8.0 GW
Net export
79.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.5°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 90.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
131
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 37.0 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire right half and centre-right of the composition, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a pale, diffuse light under heavy cloud. Brown coal 5.8 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast, alongside open-pit mine terraces visible at their base. Wind onshore 4.3 GW appears as a modest row of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on rolling hills in the centre-left middle distance, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 1.8 GW is suggested by a few distant turbines on a grey horizon line at far left. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a medium-sized timber-clad power plant with a tall flue and woodchip storage yard in the left middle ground. Natural gas 2.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with twin exhaust stacks and a low rectangular building, tucked between the coal towers and the biomass plant. Hard coal 2.3 GW is a single dark industrial boiler house with a tall square chimney emitting a thin grey plume, near the brown coal complex. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway in the far centre background, set into forested hills. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform blanket of warm grey stratus with no blue breaks — yet the scene is fully daylit at 14:00 in May, with soft, even, shadowless illumination. Temperature is mild at 16.5°C: lush green spring foliage on deciduous trees, fresh grass, wildflowers in meadow strips between solar arrays. The atmosphere feels weighty and slightly oppressive, hinting at the moderate-to-firm electricity price — humid, still air, thick clouds pressing down. 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 impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding into hazy grey distance. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.