Solar at 48 GW drives 81% renewables and 8.5 GW net exports on a hot, nearly windless summer afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 72%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 9%
81%
Renewable share
0.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.1 GW
Solar
66.9 GW
Total generation
+8.5 GW
Net export
67.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
29.2°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
94.0% / 568.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
136
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 48.1 GW dominates the scene: the entire foreground and middle distance is covered with vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-black surfaces catching diffuse white light, occupying roughly 72% of the composition. Brown coal 6.2 GW appears at the upper left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the hazy sky. Hard coal 3.2 GW sits behind the solar fields at centre-left as a smaller coal plant with rectangular chimneys and a conveyor belt feeding a stockpile. Natural gas 3.3 GW appears at centre-right as compact CCGT units with slim silver exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad industrial facility with a low rounded silo and thin wisp of smoke, placed at right-centre. Hydro 1.7 GW appears as a small concrete dam and spillway nestled in a distant green valley at the far right. Wind onshore 0.6 GW is represented by just two or three distant three-blade turbines on a ridge, their rotors barely turning. The sky is a heavy blanket of 94% high thin cloud cover, white-grey and oppressive in the 29 °C heat, yet the sun's disc is faintly visible through the haze at its 2 PM zenith position, casting a bright diffuse glow across the landscape. The atmosphere feels warm, humid, and slightly oppressive — consistent with the moderately high electricity price. Vegetation is lush midsummer green: tall grass between panel rows, mature deciduous trees in full dark-green leaf, wildflowers at field edges. The air shimmers with heat haze over the panels. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the distant cooling-tower plumes, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower surface. No text, no labels.