Solar at 53.8 GW under clear 32.8 °C skies drives 89% renewables and 11.7 GW net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 77%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
3.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
53.8 GW
Solar
70.1 GW
Total generation
+11.7 GW
Net export
34.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
32.8°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 722.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
80
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 53.8 GW dominates the scene as a vast, shimmering expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under a blazing midday sun in a perfectly cloudless pale-blue sky. Brown coal 4.5 GW appears at the far left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising into the still air. Biomass 3.5 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a modest stack and timber storage yard nestled among parched summer trees. Wind onshore 2.4 GW shows as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Natural gas 1.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single gleaming exhaust stack emitting a thin transparent heat shimmer. Hydro 1.8 GW is visible as a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete powerhouse along a sluggish, sun-drenched river in the middle distance. Hard coal 1.4 GW shows as a single older brick-stack power station partially screened by heat haze. Wind offshore 0.8 GW is suggested by tiny turbine silhouettes on the farthest horizon line. The landscape is midsummer Germany at 32.8 °C: dry golden grass, deep green deciduous canopies heavy with foliage, heat distortion rippling above asphalt roads. The atmosphere is calm and luminous, open sky suggesting low electricity prices. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into hazy blue distance — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower concrete texture is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.