Solar at 30.5 GW leads an 84% renewable mix on a calm, sunny June morning with 3.7 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 67%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
84%
Renewable share
2.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.5 GW
Solar
45.7 GW
Total generation
-3.6 GW
Net import
50.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.3°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
23.0% / 195.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
113
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 30.5 GW dominates the scene as a vast, sweeping foreground and middle-ground expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels — aluminium-framed, blue-black, glinting under a high morning sun — stretching across rolling Thuringian farmland, occupying roughly two-thirds of the composition. Brown coal 4.0 GW appears at the left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the sky. Biomass 4.1 GW sits just right of centre as a group of wood-chip-fueled combined heat and power plants with squat chimneys and conveyor belts feeding shredded timber. Natural gas 2.1 GW is rendered as a compact modern CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer, placed behind the solar field. Wind onshore 1.3 GW and wind offshore 0.7 GW appear as a small row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Hard coal 1.1 GW is a single modest coal plant with a rectangular stack near the left margin. Hydro 1.9 GW appears as a stone-faced dam with water cascading in the far background valley. Time of day: 09:00 full morning daylight, sun relatively low in the east casting long warm shadows across the panels and fields. Sky is mostly clear with only thin wisps of cirrus and a few small cumulus clouds at 23% coverage, bright blue overhead. Temperature 14°C: lush green early-summer vegetation, wildflowers in meadow edges, dewy grass. Atmosphere is calm, tranquil, with gentle neutral tones suggesting the moderate 50 EUR/MWh price — neither oppressive nor dramatically open. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening the distant cooling towers, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV cell pattern, and cooling tower ribbing. No text, no labels.