Record-level solar at 50.3 GW under clear skies drives 91% renewable share and 8.5 GW net exports at rock-bottom prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 78%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
3.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
50.3 GW
Solar
64.4 GW
Total generation
+8.5 GW
Net export
11.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.3°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 682.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
64
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 50.3 GW dominates roughly 78% of the canvas as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic arrays stretching across gently rolling central-German farmland under blazing midday sun, their aluminium frames glinting intensely. Brown coal 3.2 GW appears as a cluster of three hyperbolic cooling towers at the far left emitting thin, translucent steam plumes against the blue sky. Biomass 3.4 GW sits just left of centre as a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a short stack and stored timber piles. Wind onshore 2.3 GW is represented by a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Natural gas 1.8 GW appears as a compact single-stack CCGT unit nestled beside the biomass plant with a faint heat shimmer from its exhaust. Hydro 1.7 GW shows as a small concrete run-of-river weir with water cascading through turbines in a creek in the middle distance. Wind offshore 0.9 GW is barely visible as tiny turbines on the far horizon line. Hard coal 0.8 GW is a single small square smokestack at the far left edge, partially behind the lignite towers. The sky is entirely cloudless, deep cerulean blue, with the sun at its zenith casting short sharp shadows. Temperature is hot — 27°C summer afternoon — lush green deciduous trees, golden wheat fields between the solar arrays, heat haze shimmering over the panels. The atmosphere is calm, serene, expansive, reflecting the low electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic curvature. The composition evokes a masterwork industrial pastoral, sunlight as the protagonist. No text, no labels.