Solar at 47.8 GW overwhelms a calm, windless summer afternoon, pushing 7.8 GW of net exports and suppressing prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 77%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
3.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
47.8 GW
Solar
62.1 GW
Total generation
+7.8 GW
Net export
16.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
28.9°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 704.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
67
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 47.8 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly three-quarters of the composition, angled south under a blazing midday sun, their blue-black surfaces glinting sharply. Brown coal 3.2 GW appears at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes beside a conveyor-fed lignite bunker. Biomass 3.4 GW sits just left of centre as a medium-scale plant with a wooden-chip fuel yard and a single industrial smokestack releasing faint grey exhaust. Natural gas 1.9 GW occupies a small area centre-left as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a slender exhaust stack and a modest steam plume. Wind onshore 2.5 GW appears at the right horizon as a sparse cluster of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors virtually motionless in the still air. Wind offshore 0.8 GW is suggested by two distant turbines visible beyond a hazy river or lake edge at the far right. Hydro 1.6 GW is represented by a small run-of-river weir with water cascading over a concrete dam in the mid-ground. Hard coal 0.8 GW appears as a single modest smokestack beside a coal stockpile near the brown coal towers. The sky is completely cloudless, a deep saturated summer blue, with the sun high and slightly west of zenith casting short, crisp shadows — full bright June afternoon at 14:00. The temperature of 28.9 °C is conveyed through shimmering heat haze rising from the solar panels and dry golden-green summer grass between installations. The calm atmosphere and low electricity price are reflected in a serene, expansive sky with no oppressive elements. Lush deciduous trees in full dark-green foliage frame the edges. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich, luminous colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective toward a hazy blue-green horizon — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, and cooling tower profile. No text, no labels.