Solar at 38.6 GW leads a 77% renewable mix, with brown coal and gas covering residual load on a low-wind midday.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 64%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 11%
77%
Renewable share
2.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.6 GW
Solar
60.7 GW
Total generation
-1.9 GW
Net import
82.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.2°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
28.0% / 528.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
165
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 38.6 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German hills, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames gleaming under bright late-morning sunlight from the east-southeast. Brown coal 6.8 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the sky. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed power station with a rectangular stack and modest exhaust. Natural gas 3.6 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a tall single exhaust stack and heat-recovery unit, positioned left of centre. Hard coal 3.5 GW sits adjacent to the lignite plant as a smaller conventional boiler house with coal conveyors and a square chimney. Wind onshore 1.9 GW appears as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Wind offshore 0.7 GW is suggested by a faint line of turbines on a hazy northern horizon. Hydro 1.4 GW is a stone-walled dam with a modest spillway in a wooded valley at the far right. The sky is mostly clear with scattered cumulus clouds at 28% cover, bright direct sunlight casting sharp shadows; the atmosphere carries a slightly heavy, warm haze suggesting moderate pricing pressure. Spring vegetation — fresh green meadows, blossoming fruit trees, mild 14°C air. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.