Solar at 37.3 GW drives 90% renewable generation on a warm, partly cloudy late-May afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 69%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
5.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.3 GW
Solar
53.7 GW
Total generation
+0.4 GW
Net export
51.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.9°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
70.0% / 413.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
68
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 37.3 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling agricultural fields, occupying roughly two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under diffused afternoon light filtered through broken alto-cumulus clouds. Brown coal 3.3 GW appears at the left background as a cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy steam plumes rising into the hazy sky. Wind onshore 4.7 GW is rendered as a line of modern three-blade turbines on gentle ridgelines in the mid-distance right, rotors turning slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 1.2 GW is suggested by tiny turbines visible on a far horizon where land meets a sliver of sea. Biomass 3.7 GW is depicted as a modest biogas facility with cylindrical green digesters and a short exhaust stack near a farmstead in the middle ground. Natural gas 1.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single slim exhaust stack and small heat-recovery unit, tucked behind tree lines at centre-left. Hydro 1.6 GW is a small run-of-river weir with flowing water in a foreground stream. Hard coal 0.2 GW is a single distant smokestack, barely visible, nearly dormant. The sky at 16:00 in late May shows full afternoon daylight, warm and bright but softened by 70% cloud cover — large cumulus masses alternate with wide blue gaps admitting strong shafts of direct sunlight that illuminate patches of solar panels with brilliant white reflections. The temperature is 27.9°C: lush green late-spring vegetation, ripening wheat fields between solar arrays, leafy deciduous trees in full canopy. The atmosphere is warm and slightly hazy, neither oppressive nor crystalline, matching a moderate electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich golden-green palette, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to distant blue hills, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel row, every cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.