Solar at 42.7 GW drives 86% renewable share while low wind forces brown coal and gas to provide balancing power.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 71%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 8%
86%
Renewable share
3.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
42.7 GW
Solar
59.8 GW
Total generation
-0.2 GW
Net import
89.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.4°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
84.0% / 335.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
98
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 42.7 GW dominates the composition, filling the entire right two-thirds of the scene as a vast landscape of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic arrays stretching across gently rolling green summer fields under a bright but heavily overcast sky with occasional breaks of white sunlight piercing through layered grey clouds. Brown coal 4.7 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge with the low cloud base. Biomass 3.6 GW appears in the left-centre middle ground as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall rectangular stack and adjacent timber storage yard. Wind onshore 3.0 GW is represented by a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Natural gas 2.4 GW sits as a compact modern CCGT facility with a single polished exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer, nestled between the coal plant and the biomass facility. Hydro 1.9 GW appears as a concrete dam spillway visible in a river valley in the far left distance. Hard coal 1.0 GW is a single smaller stack with a dark plume near the brown coal complex. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is suggested by a faint row of tiny turbines on the extreme horizon line. The lighting is full early-afternoon June daylight, diffused and bright, with the sun's disc faintly visible through the overcast as a white smear — shadows are soft and muted. The atmosphere feels heavy, warm, and slightly oppressive, hinting at the elevated electricity price. Lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf frame the foreground, with wild grasses and poppies. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading distant cooling towers into haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module, and cooling tower, deep saturated greens and muted silvers and greys. No text, no labels.