Overcast solar at 35.3 GW leads generation; low wind and thermal backup drive 88 EUR/MWh prices amid 6.3 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 63%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 10%
78%
Renewable share
2.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.3 GW
Solar
56.3 GW
Total generation
-6.4 GW
Net import
88.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.4°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 45.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
148
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 35.3 GW dominates the composition, filling roughly 63% of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a uniformly overcast white sky with no sun disk visible. Brown coal 5.5 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of four large hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the low cloud ceiling. Natural gas 5.3 GW appears centre-left as two modern CCGT plants with slim cylindrical exhaust stacks releasing thin transparent heat shimmer. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a timber-clad storage silo and a single modest smokestack. Wind onshore 1.4 GW and wind offshore 1.4 GW together appear as a sparse line of five three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers along the distant right horizon, their rotors barely turning in the calm air. Hydro 1.8 GW is suggested by a small concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse beside a green-banked stream in the right foreground. Hard coal 1.6 GW is a single older power station with a rectangular brick chimney emitting faint grey smoke, tucked behind the solar fields at centre-right. The sky is a flat, heavy, unbroken layer of stratus cloud at 100% cover, casting even diffuse daylight at 10:00 AM with no shadows, giving the atmosphere a bright but oppressive, washed-out quality consistent with a high electricity price. The temperature of 17.4 °C in mid-June is reflected in lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, tall grass, and wildflowers at field margins. The overall mood is industrious and tense under a featureless white dome of cloud. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — with rich impasto brushwork in the cloud layer, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower, deep atmospheric perspective fading the distant towers into haze, and a muted but saturated palette of sage greens, steel blues, concrete greys, and cloud whites. No text, no labels.