Solar at 47 GW under clear 30 °C skies drives 7.9 GW net exports and near-zero prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 72%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
8.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
47.0 GW
Solar
65.4 GW
Total generation
+7.9 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
30.0°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 693.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
50
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#3
Furnace Hour
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Solar 47.0 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling fields and rooftops, occupying roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under blazing afternoon sun. Wind onshore 6.2 GW appears as a modest cluster of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on a ridge in the middle distance, blades barely turning in near-still air. Wind offshore 2.2 GW is suggested by a faint line of turbines on the hazy horizon beyond a river. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a compact wood-chip power station with a squat stack and timber yard at lower left. Brown coal 2.4 GW appears as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin, wispy steam plumes in the far left background, diminished in scale. Natural gas 1.9 GW is a single CCGT unit with a slender exhaust stack beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.6 GW shows as a small weir and powerhouse along a river in the foreground. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single small stack barely visible behind trees at the far edge. Time of day: 3 PM full summer daylight, sun high in the western sky, shadows short, completely cloudless deep blue sky, intense direct light. Temperature 30 °C: lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, dry golden-tinged grass in meadows, heat shimmer above the PV arrays. Wind nearly calm: no motion blur on turbine blades, still leaves, mirror-flat river surface. Price near zero: the atmosphere is serene, open, expansive, with clear luminous air and no oppressive haze. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective fading distant objects to blue, dramatic yet tranquil grandeur. Every energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: nacelle housings, three-blade rotors, PV cell grid patterns, hyperbolic concrete shell geometry, CCGT turbine exhausts. No text, no labels.