Solar at 36.6 GW drives an 86% renewable share under overcast skies, pushing the day-ahead price to 7.4 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 63%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 8%
86%
Renewable share
8.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.6 GW
Solar
58.2 GW
Total generation
+2.3 GW
Net export
7.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.0°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 189.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
98
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 36.6 GW dominates the scene: vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretch across rolling central German farmland covering roughly 60% of the composition, their glass surfaces reflecting a bright but diffuse white-grey sky. Brown coal 4.7 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of three massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thin wisps of steam, with a conveyor belt and lignite stockpile visible at their base. Wind onshore 6.5 GW appears as a line of eight modern three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors turning lazily in light wind; wind offshore 1.9 GW is suggested by smaller turbines on the far horizon. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a compact wood-chip plant with a single low smokestack and timber storage yard in the mid-ground right. Natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a small CCGT facility with a clean exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer behind the solar arrays. Hydro 1.4 GW is a low concrete dam with a gentle cascade on a river winding through the middle distance. Hard coal 1.0 GW is a single small conventional power station with a narrow chimney, partially obscured by trees, in the far left. The time is 1:00 PM in late May: full bright daylight but completely overcast—a luminous, uniform white-grey cloud deck with no visible sun disc, yet strong diffuse illumination casting soft shadowless light across the landscape. The temperature is mild at 19°C; vegetation is lush late-spring green—fresh beech and lime trees in full leaf, meadow grasses tall, rapeseed fields fading from gold to green. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the very low electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, meticulous atmospheric depth and aerial perspective—yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with precise modern engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic curves, transmission pylons. No text, no labels.