Solar at 41.2 GW drives 79% renewable share under near-cloudless skies, with 3.9 GW net export and persistent coal and gas baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 64%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 9%
79%
Renewable share
3.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.2 GW
Solar
64.1 GW
Total generation
+3.8 GW
Net export
75.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.2°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
4.0% / 415.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
142
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 41.2 GW dominates the entire centre and right of the canvas as vast, sweeping fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon, their glass surfaces blazing white and blue under intense direct sunlight. Brown coal 5.5 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the sky, flanked by conveyor belts carrying dark lignite. Natural gas 5.3 GW appears as a pair of compact combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and heat-recovery units just left of centre. Hard coal 2.6 GW is rendered as a single smaller coal-fired station with a rectangular stack and coal bunker beside the brown coal complex. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a wooden-clad biomass plant with a modest chimney and stacked timber logs in the mid-ground between the fossil plants and the solar fields. Wind onshore 2.8 GW shows as a small group of three-blade turbines on a gentle ridge in the far background right, their rotors turning very slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 1.1 GW is suggested by tiny turbines visible on a distant hazy sea horizon at the far right edge. Hydro 1.8 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with a powerhouse nestled along a winding stream in the foreground. The sky is nearly cloudless, a deep luminous cerulean with only the faintest wisps of high cirrus, the sun high in the east-southeast casting strong mid-morning shadows. The atmosphere is warm and slightly hazy at the horizon, with lush green summer foliage on deciduous trees, wildflowers in meadow strips between panel rows, and golden-green wheat fields at the edges. Despite the brilliant sunshine the air carries a faintly oppressive warm density reflecting the 75 EUR/MWh price — a subtle amber-tinged haze near the thermal plants. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, dramatic scale contrasts between the industrial structures and the pastoral land, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.