Solar at 47.7 GW drives 89% renewable share and 10.4 GW net export at midday in August.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 71%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
7.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
47.7 GW
Solar
67.4 GW
Total generation
+10.4 GW
Net export
28.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.8°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
66.0% / 529.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
75
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 47.7 GW dominates the scene, filling more than two-thirds of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, angled south, glinting under strong midday light filtered through partial high cloud. Wind onshore 5.8 GW appears as a cluster of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on gentle hills in the middle distance, blades turning very slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 1.5 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on a hazy horizon line. Brown coal 3.9 GW occupies the left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with modest white steam plumes rising lazily into still air. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a timber-clad industrial plant with a short stack and wispy exhaust beside stacked wood-chip piles. Natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 1.1 GW is a smaller dark brick powerhouse with a single squat chimney, partially screened by trees. Hydro 1.5 GW is visible as a small weir and powerhouse beside a winding river in the mid-ground. The sky is bright midday summer light with roughly two-thirds covered by white-grey cumulus and altocumulus clouds, with patches of blue and strong direct sun breaking through, casting defined shadows across the panel fields. Temperature is mild — lush green deciduous trees in full August foliage, wildflowers along field margins, warm but not oppressive atmosphere. The low electricity price is conveyed through a calm, open, spacious sky with no heaviness. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth recalling Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's reinforced concrete ribbing. No text, no labels.