Solar at 49.4 GW drives 92% renewables, pushing 15.2 GW net exports and a negative clearing price.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 80%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
92%
Renewable share
2.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
49.4 GW
Solar
61.6 GW
Total generation
+15.2 GW
Net export
-1.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.5°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 717.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
58
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 49.4 GW dominates the scene as an immense, sweeping field of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching from the foreground deep into the mid-ground, their aluminium frames gleaming under fierce midday sun, covering roughly four-fifths of the visible landscape. Brown coal 3.1 GW appears at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of white steam rising lazily. Biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad combined heat and power plant with a low exhaust stack and stacked timber logs beside it, placed just left of centre. Natural gas 1.4 GW sits as a single compact CCGT unit with a slender silver exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer, tucked behind the biomass plant. Wind onshore 2.0 GW appears as three widely spaced three-blade turbines on a low ridge to the right, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small weir and turbine house along a glinting river in the middle distance. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single small stack just visible behind the cooling towers, almost lost in haze. The time is 14:00 on an August afternoon: the sun is high and blazing, the sky entirely cloudless and deep cerulean blue, the atmosphere calm and open, suggesting very low electricity prices. Vegetation is lush midsummer green — tall grasses, mature deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers in the foreground — under a temperature of 26.5 °C with shimmering heat haze over the panels. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, luminous atmospheric depth, visible confident brushwork, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.