Solar at 45.3 GW leads a windless midsummer morning, with 7.6 GW net export despite persistent coal baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 66%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 11%
80%
Renewable share
4.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
45.3 GW
Solar
69.1 GW
Total generation
+7.6 GW
Net export
93.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.1°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 411.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
147
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 45.3 GW dominates the scene: the entire foreground and right two-thirds of the composition are covered with vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-black surfaces glinting under fierce midday sun. Brown coal 7.4 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising vertically in the still air. Hard coal 3.2 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a single tall smokestack and conveyor belts beside the cooling towers. Natural gas 3.4 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with polished exhaust stacks and a modest heat-shimmer exhaust plume, positioned between the coal complex and the solar fields. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single flue, set among green deciduous trees at the left edge. Wind onshore 1.9 GW is represented by a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors nearly motionless. Wind offshore 2.4 GW is suggested by a faint line of turbines on a hazy sea horizon at the far right. Hydro 1.7 GW is a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a green valley in the mid-left background. The sky is completely clear, deep cerulean blue, zero clouds, with a white-hot sun at high elevation casting sharp shadows. The air has a slightly oppressive, hazy shimmer near the horizon reflecting the 27 °C heat and the elevated 93 EUR/MWh price. Summer vegetation is lush: full green canopy on deciduous trees, golden-green grasses bordering the solar arrays, wildflowers. No wind ripples in the grass; the atmosphere is perfectly still. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — yet every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT exhaust detail is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.