Solar at 37 GW leads a 90% renewable afternoon, with wind and residual thermal balancing modest demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 63%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
10.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.0 GW
Solar
59.1 GW
Total generation
-0.8 GW
Net import
31.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.2°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
73.0% / 298.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
68
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 37.0 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under a partly cloudy midday sky. Wind onshore 9.9 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers and nacelles arrayed across gentle green hills in the middle distance, blades turning slowly in a light breeze. Brown coal 3.0 GW is rendered at the far left as a cluster of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising into the overcast. Biomass 3.5 GW sits as a modest wood-clad power station with a short smokestack and adjacent timber storage yard, just left of centre. Natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal emissions haze, tucked behind the biomass facility. Hydro 2.0 GW is represented by a small concrete dam and weir in a wooded valley at the right edge. Hard coal 0.8 GW and wind offshore 0.8 GW appear as small background details: a single coal stack near the brown coal complex and distant offshore turbines on a hazy horizon line. The sky is full early-afternoon daylight — bright but softened by a 73% veil of alto- and stratocumulus cloud, with patches of blue and diffused sunlight casting gentle shadows. Vegetation is lush mid-June green: wheat fields, wildflower meadows, deciduous trees in full leaf. Temperature of 16°C gives a cool freshness — no heat shimmer. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the moderate electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — rendered with meticulous technical accuracy for every energy installation. No text, no labels.