Solar at 52 GW under extreme heat drives 83.7% renewables and 11.7 GW net exports despite near-zero wind.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 75%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
84%
Renewable share
0.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
52.0 GW
Solar
69.4 GW
Total generation
+11.7 GW
Net export
74.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
32.1°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 725.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
118
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 52.0 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling fields and rooftops covering more than two-thirds of the composition, reflecting blinding midday sunlight; brown coal 6.3 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky; biomass 3.6 GW appears as a medium-scale wood-chip power plant with a squat boiler house and a gently smoking stack in the left-centre middle ground; natural gas 2.9 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer in the centre-left; hard coal 2.1 GW sits beside the lignite plant as a smaller coal-fired station with a conveyor belt and ash-grey plume; hydro 1.8 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir with foaming spillway in the right foreground beside a slow green river; wind onshore 0.5 GW appears as two distant three-blade turbines on a far ridge, their rotors barely turning. Full blazing midday summer sun at 14:00, completely cloudless deep blue sky with a faint whitish heat haze near the horizon; the landscape is parched golden-green grassland with wilting linden trees, the air shimmering with 32 °C heat; the atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive reflecting the moderately high electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth—yet with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and lattice towers, aluminium-framed PV modules with visible cell grids, cooling tower parabolic curvature, CCGT exhaust diffusers. No text, no labels.