Solar at 36.6 GW and wind at 12.6 GW drive a 92% renewable afternoon with 4.1 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 62%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
12.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.6 GW
Solar
59.2 GW
Total generation
+4.1 GW
Net export
27.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.1°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
65.0% / 221.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
53
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 36.6 GW dominates the scene: the entire foreground and right two-thirds of the canvas are covered with vast fields of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels, their aluminium frames glinting under a partially cloudy but bright June afternoon sky, stretching to the horizon across gentle green German farmland. Wind onshore 10.1 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on rolling hills in the mid-ground right, their rotors turning slowly in a moderate breeze, lattice and tubular towers meticulously rendered. Wind offshore 2.5 GW is visible as a distant cluster of turbines on the hazy horizon line, suggesting a North Sea coast. Biomass 3.6 GW occupies a modest compound in the centre-left middle ground—a timber-clad biogas facility with rounded digesters and a small steam vent. Brown coal 2.5 GW appears in the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes, partially hidden behind trees. Hydro 1.9 GW is represented by a small dam and reservoir glimpsed in a valley at far left. Natural gas 1.7 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack near the cooling towers, almost idle with barely visible heat shimmer. The sky is 65% covered with cumulus and altocumulus clouds, but strong direct sunlight breaks through in broad shafts, illuminating the panels with warm golden light consistent with 14:00 Central European summer. Temperature is mild at 17°C: lush green deciduous trees in full June leaf, wildflowers in meadow edges. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting a low electricity price—no oppressive haze, but a serene luminous quality. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth—yet with meticulous technical accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve. No text, no labels.