Overcast solar at 39.3 GW leads Germany's grid at 86% renewables, with brown coal holding a 4.7 GW baseload floor.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 67%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 8%
86%
Renewable share
6.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
39.3 GW
Solar
59.1 GW
Total generation
+1.2 GW
Net export
42.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.2°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
95% / 191.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
100
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 39.3 GW dominates the scene as vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling fields and rooftops, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a bright but overcast sky. Brown coal 4.7 GW appears at the left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the cloud deck. Wind onshore 5.3 GW is rendered as a line of modern three-blade turbines with white nacelles on lattice-free tubular towers set along a low ridge in the middle distance, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 1.0 GW appears as distant turbines on a hazy horizon line. Biomass 4.0 GW shows as a wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a modest stack and conveyor belts near a forest edge. Natural gas 2.1 GW is a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 1.4 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single square cooling tower and coal stockpile. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam and penstock visible in a valley at the far right. Time of day: 11:00 AM full daylight, but 95% cloud cover creates a bright, diffuse, silvery-white sky with no direct shadows — light is even and luminous. Temperature 17.2°C, late May: lush green deciduous foliage, fresh spring grass, wildflowers speckling meadows. Light breeze barely stirs the trees. The atmosphere is calm and mildly hazy, not oppressive — consistent with a moderate electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich colour palette of muted greens, silvers, and warm greys, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with receding layers of landscape fading into soft haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine blade, panel frame, and cooling tower. The scene reads as an industrial pastoral: technology embedded harmoniously in a verdant spring landscape under a luminous overcast dome. No text, no labels.