Solar at 49.1 GW drives 17.2 GW net export; brown coal and gas provide residual baseload under light wind.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 72%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 10%
83%
Renewable share
1.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
49.1 GW
Solar
68.2 GW
Total generation
+17.2 GW
Net export
9.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
30.8°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
73.0% / 318.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
123
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 49.1 GW dominates the scene, covering the entire right two-thirds of the composition as vast undulating fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under hazy bright daylight. Brown coal 7.0 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting lazy white-grey steam plumes. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as mid-ground timber-clad biomass plants with short stacks and wood-chip yards. Natural gas 3.0 GW is rendered as a pair of compact CCGT units with slender exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer near the left-centre. Hydro 1.9 GW appears as a small concrete weir and turbine house along a river in the middle distance. Hard coal 1.5 GW is a single smaller stack with a dark plume beside the brown coal complex. Wind onshore 1.1 GW is represented by two distant three-blade turbines on a ridge, barely turning. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is a faint pair of turbines visible on the far horizon line. The sky is late-morning bright but veiled with a high, thin layer of broken cloud at 73% cover, the sun a white disc burning through haze, casting diffuse warm light across the landscape. Temperature is sweltering at 30.8 °C — the air shimmers above tarmac and panel surfaces, vegetation is lush midsummer green but wilting slightly, meadow grasses tawny at the edges. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the very low electricity price — no oppressive weight, just humid summer stillness. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich warm colour palette, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every technology element — turbine nacelles, panel racking, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT ducting. The scene feels monumental and contemplative, an industrial pastoral. No text, no labels.