Strong wind and diffuse solar drive 83% renewables under full overcast, with 8.1 GW net export.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 33%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 8%
83%
Renewable share
29.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
23.0 GW
Solar
70.1 GW
Total generation
+8.1 GW
Net export
94.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.2°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 12.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
115
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 24.4 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers stretching across rolling green hills into atmospheric haze; wind offshore 5.5 GW appears in the far background right as a line of turbines standing in a grey North Sea horizon. Solar 23.0 GW fills the mid-ground centre-left as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels covering gentle farmland slopes, their glass surfaces reflecting only dull grey sky with no sun glint. Brown coal 5.9 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the overcast ceiling, with conveyor belts of dark lignite visible at ground level. Natural gas 4.5 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks and modest heat shimmer. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a pair of smaller industrial facilities with cylindrical digesters and low chimneys amid hedgerows. Hard coal 1.4 GW is a single darkened coal plant with a tapered stack in the far left background. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small reservoir dam visible in a valley fold at centre. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover—a uniform, heavy, oppressive blanket of stratocumulus in layered greys and muted whites pressing down on the landscape, conveying high electricity price tension. Lighting is full mid-morning daylight at 09:00 in July but entirely diffuse, soft, and shadowless. Temperature 18°C: lush green summer vegetation, full-leafed deciduous trees, tall grass, but no warmth in the light. Wind at 12.3 km/h gives gentle motion to grass and subtle blade rotation blur on the turbines. 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 layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic compositional scale contrasting human engineering against brooding nature. Meticulous engineering detail on every technology. No text, no labels.