Solar leads at 26.8 GW under heavy overcast; 10.1 GW net imports bridge the gap to 59.4 GW demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 54%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
81%
Renewable share
7.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.8 GW
Solar
49.3 GW
Total generation
-10.1 GW
Net import
81.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.4°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99.0% / 102.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
128
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 26.8 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling summer farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting a pale, diffuse white-grey sky; wind onshore 7.3 GW appears as a line of dozen three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a ridge behind the solar fields, blades turning slowly in moderate breeze; brown coal 4.6 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of three massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting rightward, flanked by conveyor gantries and coal bunkers; natural gas 3.9 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad power plant with a short chimney and timber-chip storage dome nestled among trees at centre; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway visible in a valley in the middle distance; hard coal 0.8 GW is a single dark industrial stack barely visible behind the brown coal complex; wind offshore 0.6 GW is faintly suggested as tiny turbines on a hazy horizon line far in the background. The sky is a uniform blanket of 99% cloud cover—no blue patches, no direct sun, yet the scene is lit by bright diffuse daylight consistent with 4 PM in June, casting soft shadowless illumination across green summer foliage, wheat fields, and wildflower meadows at 22°C warmth. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, with a humid haze hanging low over the landscape, reflecting the elevated electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to a misty horizon, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every panel junction box, every cooling tower's parabolic concrete form. No text, no labels.