Solar leads at 31.6 GW under clear skies, but 9.8 GW net imports are needed to meet 54.9 GW demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 70%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 7%
87%
Renewable share
1.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.6 GW
Solar
45.1 GW
Total generation
-9.8 GW
Net import
101.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.8°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 548.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
93
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 31.6 GW dominates the scene as a vast, sweeping expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels covering rolling green hills across the right two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting in intense late-afternoon sun. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a cluster of modest wood-chip-burning plants with short stacks and thin white smoke in the centre-left. Brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising heavily. Natural gas 2.0 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a tall single exhaust stack and a smaller vapour trail, positioned just left of centre. Hydro 1.9 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway in a valley in the middle distance. Wind onshore 1.5 GW is shown as a small cluster of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on a distant ridgeline, blades barely turning in light wind. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is suggested by two distant turbines on the hazy horizon. Hard coal 0.7 GW is a single squat brick power station with a thin dark exhaust plume near the brown coal towers. Time of day is dusk at 17:00 in late May in central Germany: the sun is descending toward the western horizon casting long golden-orange light across the landscape, the sky transitions from warm amber-orange near the horizon to a deepening blue overhead, clear with zero clouds. Temperature is 22.8°C: lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers in meadows, warm late-spring atmosphere. The elevated price of 101.3 EUR/MWh is conveyed through a slightly heavy, hazy, oppressive golden atmosphere weighing on the scene. High-voltage transmission pylons and cables stretch across the midground, subtly implying import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV panel joint, cooling tower curvature, and smokestack detail. No text, no labels.