Solar at 51.8 GW overwhelms a calm, hot midsummer midday, driving 12.2 GW of net exports despite persistent coal generation.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 71%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
84%
Renewable share
4.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
51.8 GW
Solar
72.7 GW
Total generation
+12.2 GW
Net export
67.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
29.0°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
1.0% / 530.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
114
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 51.8 GW dominates the scene, filling more than two-thirds of the composition as an immense patchwork of crystalline silicon photovoltaic arrays stretching across flat agricultural fields and barn rooftops under a blazing, nearly cloudless sky at high noon. Brown coal 6.5 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising vertically in the windless air, their concrete forms catching harsh midday light. Biomass 3.7 GW appears as a modest wood-chip power station with a corrugated steel silo and a single low smokestack near the middle distance. Natural gas 2.6 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and a visible heat shimmer behind the solar fields. Hard coal 2.2 GW is a single coal-fired station with conveyor belts and a tall brick chimney, partially screened by heat haze on the far left beyond the lignite towers. Wind onshore 1.8 GW shows as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning. Wind offshore 2.3 GW is suggested by a faint line of offshore turbines on the extreme horizon. Hydro 1.7 GW appears as a modest dam spillway in a river valley at the far right edge. The sky is an unbroken, intense, slightly oppressive cerulean blue with a white-hot sun at zenith — the atmosphere thick with summer heat haze suggesting the 29°C temperature. Vegetation is lush midsummer green but parched at the edges, golden wheat fields between rows of PV panels. The air is utterly still — no flag moves, no grass bends. The overall mood is heavy, saturated, powerful abundance. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich warm palette, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous treatment of light, with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology depicted. No text, no labels.