Solar at 55.3 GW drives 85% renewables and 17.2 GW net export on a hot, nearly cloudless midsummer noon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 73%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
85%
Renewable share
4.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
55.3 GW
Solar
76.2 GW
Total generation
+17.2 GW
Net export
49.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
31.7°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
28.0% / 625.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
109
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 55.3 GW dominates the scene as a vast sweeping plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under intense midday sun with short, hard shadows; brown coal 6.5 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the sky; natural gas 2.6 GW sits just right of the coal complex as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and thin grey emissions; hard coal 2.2 GW is rendered as a smaller power station with a rectangular boiler house and a single squat cooling tower adjacent to the lignite group; biomass 3.7 GW is depicted as a mid-ground facility with cylindrical wood-pellet silos and a modest smokestack; wind onshore 1.9 GW appears as a handful of three-blade turbines on a low ridge in the background, their rotors barely turning in the 4.7 km/h breeze; wind offshore 2.2 GW is suggested by a sliver of hazy North Sea horizon at the far right with a small cluster of offshore turbine silhouettes; hydro 1.7 GW is a small concrete run-of-river dam visible along a glinting river cutting through the foreground. The sky is bright midday summer blue with scattered fair-weather cumulus clouds covering roughly a quarter of the dome, the sun blazing at near-zenith. The landscape is lush midsummer German countryside — green deciduous trees in full leaf, golden-tinged wheat fields, heat shimmer rising from the panels. Temperature reads in the vegetation: slightly wilted edges, dry grass patches hinting at 31°C heat. The atmosphere is warm but not oppressive, with open luminous sky reflecting a moderate electricity price. Style: a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening the distant cooling towers — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid-line, every cooling tower's parabolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.