Solar at 55.7 GW drives 19.5 GW net exports on a hot, low-wind midsummer afternoon with persistent coal baseload.
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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
4.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
55.7 GW
Solar
76.7 GW
Total generation
+19.4 GW
Net export
38.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
34.4°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
62.0% / 668.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
108
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 55.7 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 a high midday summer sun partially veiled by broken cumulus clouds at 62% cover, light pouring through gaps in sharp golden shafts. Brown coal 6.5 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of four massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that drift lazily in the near-still air, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles. Biomass 3.7 GW appears as a medium-sized facility with a tall cylindrical smokestack and wood-chip storage silos at the left-center edge. Natural gas 2.6 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single sleek exhaust stack and heat recovery unit in the center-left midground. Hard coal 2.2 GW shows as a smaller conventional power station with a rectangular chimney trailing faint grey smoke near the brown coal complex. Wind onshore 2.1 GW and offshore 2.2 GW together appear as a modest line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers along the distant right horizon, their rotors barely turning in the slack 6.5 km/h breeze. Hydro 1.7 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and turbine house beside a glassy stream in the right foreground. The landscape is parched high-summer German countryside at 34°C — dry golden grasses, wilting linden trees, heat shimmer rising from dark soil between the panel rows. The sky is bright but hazy, a washed-out blue with broken cloud layers, light intense but diffused. The atmosphere is calm, warm, expansive — not oppressive, reflecting the moderate 38.5 EUR/MWh price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich saturated colour palette, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to a blue-haze horizon, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel junction box, and cooling tower fluting. No text, no labels.