Solar leads at 25.8 GW under overcast skies; 5.3 GW net imports cover the generation shortfall at moderate prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 49%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 10%
80%
Renewable share
10.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.8 GW
Solar
52.4 GW
Total generation
-5.3 GW
Net import
86.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.9°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98.0% / 372.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
137
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 25.8 GW dominates the right half as vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green fields; wind onshore 8.5 GW and offshore 2.4 GW together occupy the centre-right as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning gently in moderate wind; brown coal 5.0 GW fills the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast; biomass 3.6 GW appears as a cluster of mid-sized industrial buildings with wood-chip storage domes in the left-centre; natural gas 3.3 GW rendered as two compact CCGT units with single tall exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer; hard coal 1.9 GW shown as a smaller power station with conveyor belts and a single cooling tower behind the gas units; hydro 1.9 GW depicted as a concrete dam with spillway in the distant left background nestled into wooded hills. Full afternoon daylight at 15:00, but the sky is 98% covered with dense, layered grey-white stratiform clouds creating a flat, heavy, oppressive atmosphere — yet enough diffuse brightness filters through to illuminate the panels. The landscape is lush early-summer green with wildflowers, temperature around 18°C, moderate breeze bending grasses. Transmission pylons thread across the middle distance carrying high-voltage lines toward the horizon, symbolizing import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette of muted greens, steel greys, warm ochres on industrial structures — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with hazy depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every panel junction box, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. The mood is weighty and industrious, a grand panorama of energy infrastructure under a brooding summer sky. No text, no labels.