Solar at 39.9 GW drives 91.7% renewables and net exports under cloudless, windless heat.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 67%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
9.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
39.9 GW
Solar
59.3 GW
Total generation
+2.2 GW
Net export
13.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
30.6°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 626.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
56
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#1
Furnace Hour
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Solar 39.9 GW dominates the scene as a vast plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, their aluminium frames glinting under fierce direct sunlight; wind onshore 7.5 GW appears as a scattered row of three-blade turbines with detailed nacelles and lattice towers on a distant ridge to the right, blades barely turning in the still air; wind offshore 1.8 GW is glimpsed as a small cluster of turbines on a hazy horizon line at far right; biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip power station with a rectangular stack and small steam wisp at centre-left; brown coal 2.5 GW appears as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin lazy steam plumes rising in the still air, placed at the far left; natural gas 2.0 GW is a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack beside the cooling towers; hydro 1.6 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and reservoir glimpsed in a valley at left; hard coal 0.5 GW is a single modest smokestack, barely active, tucked behind the lignite towers. Time is 4 PM on a late-May afternoon: the sun is high and blazing in a completely cloudless, deep blue sky, casting sharp short shadows. The temperature is 30.6 °C — the landscape is lush but heat-stressed, with vibrant green deciduous trees showing slight wilting, golden-green meadow grass, shimmering heat haze rising from the PV field. The air is utterly still, no motion in foliage or clouds. The atmosphere is calm, open, expansive — a low-price serenity pervades the scene. 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, visible expressive brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous sky, but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology depicted. No text, no labels.