Solar at 49.7 GW drives 83% renewable share; 7.6 GW net export under hot, low-wind midday conditions.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 74%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 8%
83%
Renewable share
0.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
49.7 GW
Solar
67.0 GW
Total generation
+7.6 GW
Net export
60.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
28.3°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
58.0% / 443.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
120
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 49.7 GW dominates the scene as a vast sweeping foreground and middle ground of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green farmland, their aluminium frames glinting under partly cloudy midday sun, occupying roughly three-quarters of the composition. Brown coal 5.6 GW appears at the left edge as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes against the sky. Hard coal 2.7 GW sits just beside them as a smaller coal plant with a single square stack and conveyor belts of dark fuel. Natural gas 2.9 GW occupies the centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with a clean cylindrical exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer. Biomass 3.7 GW appears as a mid-ground cluster of wood-chip-fed power stations with small chimneys and timber storage yards. Hydro 1.7 GW is rendered as a small dam and spillway visible in a river valley at the right middle distance. Wind onshore 0.6 GW is represented by just two or three lonely three-blade turbines on a far ridge, their rotors nearly still in the dead-calm air. The sky is 58% covered with broken cumulus clouds, bright white where the June sun punches through, casting dappled shadows across the landscape. The light is strong midday summer light at 1 PM, high sun angle, warm colour temperature. The air shimmers with 28°C summer heat; lush green deciduous trees in full leaf line field edges, wildflowers dot meadow margins. The atmosphere is warm and slightly hazy but not oppressive. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, panel array, cooling tower curvature, and industrial structure. No text, no labels.