Solar leads at 24 GW with persistent brown coal baseload; Germany exports 1.3 GW on a warm summer morning.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 48%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 16%
70%
Renewable share
5.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.0 GW
Solar
49.8 GW
Total generation
+1.3 GW
Net export
102.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.9°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
27.0% / 131.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
217
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.0 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle green hillsides, angled south, glinting under strong morning sunlight. Brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting tall white steam plumes against the sky, with conveyor belts feeding lignite into a sprawling plant. Wind onshore 4.3 GW appears as a modest line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers along a distant ridge, blades turning slowly in light breeze. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded silo and a single low chimney producing thin smoke, nestled among deciduous trees in full summer leaf. Natural gas 3.8 GW sits as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with twin exhaust stacks and a small cooling unit near the coal complex. Hard coal 3.2 GW shows as a traditional power station with a tall brick chimney and coal bunker, slightly smaller than the brown coal installation. Hydro 1.8 GW appears in the far background as a concrete dam set into a forested valley with water cascading over spillways. Wind offshore 0.7 GW is barely visible as tiny turbines on the hazy horizon line suggesting the North Sea coast. The time is 08:00 on a warm late-June morning: the sun is already well above the eastern horizon casting long but brightening golden light across the landscape, sky mostly clear with scattered fair-weather cumulus clouds covering roughly a quarter of a warm blue sky. The atmosphere carries a faint haze suggesting warmth at 24°C, with lush green summer vegetation — tall grasses, wildflowers, full-canopy oaks and lindens. Despite the sunshine, the overall atmosphere has a subtly heavy, warm quality hinting at high electricity prices. Painted in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and luminous sky treatment — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower hyperbolic curve is rendered with precise engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.