Solar at 52 GW drives 16 GW net export and near-zero prices despite overcast skies and minimal wind.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 79%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 7%
89%
Renewable share
1.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
52.2 GW
Solar
66.1 GW
Total generation
+16.0 GW
Net export
0.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
32.2°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
80.0% / 315.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
82
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 52.2 GW dominates the entire panorama as vast, sweeping fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling farmland, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition. Brown coal 4.5 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising into the hazy sky. Biomass 3.6 GW sits behind the solar fields as a wood-chip-fed power station with a tall chimney and a green-fringed fuel yard. Natural gas 1.7 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT unit with a single polished exhaust stack, placed mid-left between the coal plant and the solar expanse. Hydro 1.6 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir with turbine housing in a shallow river crossing the lower foreground. Hard coal 1.2 GW is a smaller conventional plant with a square chimney and conveyor belt, adjacent to the brown coal towers. Wind onshore 0.9 GW shows two or three distant three-blade turbines on a far ridge, their rotors barely turning. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is omitted. The scene is set at high noon under a bright but heavily overcast milky-white sky with 80% cloud cover — diffuse daylight floods the landscape with a warm, bleached luminosity but no sharp shadows. The air shimmers at 32°C; lush midsummer vegetation — tall green wheat, thick deciduous canopies, wildflower meadows — covers every unoccupied surface. The atmosphere feels languid and calm, reflecting the near-zero electricity price: open, spacious, unhurried. High-voltage transmission towers with sagging lines march toward the horizon, symbolizing massive export flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant objects — yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: nacelle housings, lattice tower cross-members, panel junction boxes, cooling tower reinforcement ribs. No text, no labels.