Solar at 47.3 GW overwhelms a calm, windless summer afternoon; 8.0 GW net exports flow to neighbors amid heatwave demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 73%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 9%
82%
Renewable share
0.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
47.3 GW
Solar
64.8 GW
Total generation
+8.0 GW
Net export
89.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
33.0°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 703.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
126
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 47.3 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly three-quarters of the composition — thousands of aluminium-framed modules arrayed on rolling fields of parched golden-brown summer grass, glinting fiercely under a blazing midday sun at 15:00 in full, harsh June daylight. Brown coal 6.1 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising vertically in the still air, beside a lignite power station with conveyor belts and stockpiles of dark earth-brown fuel. Biomass 3.6 GW appears as a mid-sized biomass plant with a tall cylindrical silo and wood-chip storage yard, positioned behind the solar fields at centre-left. Natural gas 3.0 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a pair of single exhaust stacks emitting thin, nearly transparent heat shimmer, tucked between the coal complex and the solar expanse. Hard coal 2.3 GW shows as a smaller conventional power station with a rectangular boiler house and a single stack trailing faint grey smoke. Hydro 1.8 GW is visible as a distant dam and spillway nestled in low green hills at the far right horizon. Wind onshore 0.6 GW appears as two or three distant three-blade turbines standing completely motionless on a ridge, their rotors frozen in the dead calm. The sky is completely cloudless, an intense cerulean blue overhead fading to a pale haze near the horizon from the extreme 33°C heat; the atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, and shimmering, reflecting the high 89.3 EUR/MWh price — heat distortion ripples above the panels and roads. Vegetation is summer-stressed: dry grasses, wilting wildflowers, dusty paths. The landscape is flat central German farmland. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour palette, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, dramatic chiaroscuro between the blazing sunlit panels and the deep shadows beneath them — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.