Solar at 48.7 GW drives 7.4 GW net exports under cloudless skies with minimal wind support.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 73%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
4.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.7 GW
Solar
66.7 GW
Total generation
+7.4 GW
Net export
28.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.9°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 643.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
86
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 48.7 GW dominates the entire scene as an immense foreground and middle-ground expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels—aluminium-framed, blue-black, angled south—stretching across golden-green summer wheat fields under a blazing midday sun, occupying roughly three-quarters of the composition. Brown coal 3.9 GW appears at the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising against the clear sky. Wind onshore 3.8 GW and wind offshore 1.1 GW together appear as a modest line of modern three-blade turbines on the far right horizon, their rotors turning slowly in the light breeze. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a medium-sized timber-clad biomass plant with a low exhaust stack and wood-chip storage adjacent to the solar field. Natural gas 2.4 GW occupies a small cluster of compact CCGT units with slim exhaust stacks and modest heat shimmer in the centre-left middle ground. Hard coal 1.8 GW shows as a single conventional coal plant with a tall smokestack and conveyor belt, positioned just beside the brown coal towers. Hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small reservoir dam visible in a valley notch at the far left edge. The sky is perfectly clear, deep summer blue, zero clouds, with intense direct sunlight casting sharp shadows from every structure. Vegetation is lush midsummer green, full deciduous canopy, wildflowers in field margins, temperature haze shimmering above the solar panels. The atmosphere is calm and luminous, no oppressive weight—an open, expansive sky suggesting low electricity prices. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective deepening toward the horizon—but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid pattern, cooling tower curvature, and smokestack detail. No text, no labels.