Solar at 49.4 GW drives 91.8% renewable share and 17.8 GW net export at negative prices on a hot August afternoon.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 79%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
92%
Renewable share
3.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
49.4 GW
Solar
62.9 GW
Total generation
+17.8 GW
Net export
-2.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
31.5°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
67.0% / 468.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
60
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 49.4 GW dominates the scene as vast crystalline silicon PV arrays stretching across the entire right two-thirds and middle ground — thousands of aluminium-framed panels on summer-browned fields and rooftops of village houses, angled toward the high afternoon sun, their glass surfaces catching white-gold reflections. Brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the far left as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thin, wind-sheared steam plumes rising into the hazy sky, beside a conveyor belt and lignite bunker. Wind onshore 3.1 GW appears as a scattered line of five three-blade turbines on a low ridge behind the solar fields, their rotors turning lazily in the weak breeze, nacelles and lattice towers rendered in precise engineering detail. Biomass 3.5 GW is shown as a modest industrial facility with a woodchip storage dome and single smokestack emitting pale exhaust, placed between the coal plant and the wind turbines. Natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a compact single-stack CCGT unit beside the biomass plant, its exhaust barely visible. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway visible in the valley floor. Wind offshore 0.7 GW is hinted at by distant turbines on the far horizon line. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a small industrial structure with a single stack near the lignite plant. The sky is a high summer afternoon sky at 14:00 in central Germany: bright but hazy with broken cumulus clouds covering roughly two-thirds of the sky, allowing strong shafts of direct sunlight to illuminate the solar fields while patches of shadow drift across the landscape. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and expansive — reflecting the negative electricity price. Temperature of 31.5°C is conveyed through heat shimmer above the panels, parched golden-brown grass, dusty paths, and wilting sunflowers at field edges. Deciduous trees in full dark-green summer foliage. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, saturated colour palette, visible impasto brushwork in the clouds and sky, meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine blade and panel frame, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective fading the distant cooling towers into blue haze, dramatic luminosity in the Caspar David Friedrich tradition but depicting an industrial-renewable landscape. No text, no labels.