Solar at 30.5 GW leads an 85% renewable mix with brown coal baseload, producing a 1.8 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 59%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 11%
85%
Renewable share
7.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.5 GW
Solar
51.7 GW
Total generation
+1.8 GW
Net export
36.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.8°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
68.0% / 52.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
112
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 30.5 GW dominates the scene as an immense foreground and middle-ground expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green late-May farmland, occupying roughly 59% of the composition. Brown coal 5.7 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of three hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky. Wind onshore 6.1 GW appears as a line of modern three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the right-middle distance, their rotors turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 1.3 GW is suggested by two distant turbines on the far-right horizon. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a modest biomass power plant with a tall rectangular stack and woodchip storage visible at mid-left. Natural gas 2.0 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single clean exhaust stack, positioned just right of the cooling towers. Hydro 1.8 GW shows as a small dam with a reservoir glimpsed in a valley at far right. Hard coal 0.2 GW is barely visible as a single small industrial stack behind the biomass plant. Daytime lighting at 09:00 in late May: full daylight but softened by 68% cloud cover — the sky is a patchwork of grey-white cumulus with broad patches of blue, the sun partially veiled, casting diffuse warm light across the landscape. Temperature is a pleasant 18.8°C; vegetation is lush spring-green, with wildflowers at field edges, birch and beech trees in full leaf. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting a moderate electricity price. 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 aerial perspective giving depth to the layered industrial-pastoral scene, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, and cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.