Solar leads at 29.3 GW but 30.5 °C heat drives 54.4 GW demand, requiring 7.9 GW net imports and brown coal baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 63%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 13%
80%
Renewable share
2.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
29.3 GW
Solar
46.5 GW
Total generation
-7.8 GW
Net import
105.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
30.5°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
34.0% / 500.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
148
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 29.3 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition from centre to right, their blue-black surfaces catching intense late-afternoon light. Brown coal 5.9 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the hazy sky, beside a lignite open-pit mine's terraced brown earth. Biomass 3.5 GW appears as a mid-ground biogas facility with cylindrical green digesters and a short exhaust stack with faint vapour. Natural gas 2.4 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a tall single exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, positioned between the coal complex and the solar fields. Wind onshore 2.0 GW shows as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in light breeze. Hydro 1.6 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir with modest white water in the mid-ground along a river cutting through the landscape. Hard coal 1.2 GW is a single smaller coal plant with a rectangular chimney and thin grey smoke plume, tucked behind the gas facility. Wind offshore 0.5 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on the far horizon line. The sky is a dusk scene at 17:00 Berlin summer time: the sun is low in the west, casting a warm orange-golden light across the landscape, the upper sky transitioning from hazy pale blue to deeper tones, with scattered cumulus clouds (34% cover) lit brilliantly orange and gold underneath. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive — a thick summer haze hangs over the scene suggesting 30.5 °C heat, with shimmering heat distortion above the solar panels and the dark industrial stacks. Vegetation is lush midsummer green — tall grasses, leafy deciduous trees, wildflowers along field edges — but wilting slightly under the heat. High-voltage transmission pylons march across the mid-ground, cables sagging in the warmth, symbolising the import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: correct turbine nacelle shapes, three-blade rotors, panel racking systems, cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust configurations. No text, no labels.