Solar at 47.9 GW drives 83.5% renewable share and 13.7 GW net export on a 36°C summer afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 70%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
84%
Renewable share
4.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
47.9 GW
Solar
68.9 GW
Total generation
+13.7 GW
Net export
69.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
36.2°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
41.0% / 704.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
121
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#3
Furnace Hour
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Solar 47.9 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire right two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under intense direct sunlight. Brown coal 6.5 GW appears at the far left as three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into hazy sky. Natural gas 2.6 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and heat-recovery unit just left of centre. Hard coal 2.2 GW sits beside the brown coal as a smaller coal plant with conveyor belts and a single square stack trailing thin grey smoke. Biomass 3.7 GW is visible as a timber-clad biomass CHP facility with a modest chimney and stacked woodchip piles, placed between the coal and gas plants. Wind onshore 2.3 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the still air. Wind offshore 1.9 GW is suggested by faint turbine silhouettes on a hazy horizon line at the far back. Hydro 1.7 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a concrete dam visible in a valley at the lower left. The sky is mid-afternoon June brightness at 15:00 Berlin time, blazing sun high in the southwest, partially veiled by scattered cumulus clouds covering roughly 40% of the sky, creating dramatic chiaroscuro shadows across the landscape. The air shimmers with extreme 36°C heat — parched golden grass, wilting deciduous trees with dark green foliage stressed by drought, heat distortion rising from the solar panels. The atmosphere is slightly hazy and oppressive, reflecting the moderately high 69 EUR/MWh price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into humid summer haze — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid pattern, cooling tower parabolic curve, and industrial pipe. No text, no labels.