Solar dominates at 27.4 GW under clear skies, but low wind and extreme heat drive 8.3 GW net imports and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 61%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 10%
82%
Renewable share
4.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.4 GW
Solar
45.1 GW
Total generation
-8.2 GW
Net import
108.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
33.2°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 536.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
128
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#3
Furnace Hour
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Solar 27.4 GW dominates the centre and right as vast, sprawling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under intense late-afternoon sun. Brown coal 4.5 GW occupies the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky, flanked by conveyor gantries and ash-grey lignite stockpiles. Biomass 3.5 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial plant with a tall rectangular stack and wood-chip storage silos. Wind onshore 3.4 GW is visible as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors nearly motionless in the dead-calm air. Natural gas 2.1 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single polished exhaust stack emitting a thin heat shimmer. Hydro 1.6 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a narrow river channel at the far right edge. Hard coal 1.4 GW is a smaller power station with a single rectangular smokestack in the mid-left. Wind offshore 1.2 GW is faintly suggested as tiny turbine silhouettes on the hazy horizon line. The sky is cloudless, a deep brassy gold-orange near the western horizon transitioning to a warm haze-whitened blue overhead — the sun sits low but still powerful at 17:00, casting long golden shadows eastward across the parched, yellowed summer grasslands. The atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, shimmering with 33 °C heat haze distorting distant structures. Vegetation is dry midsummer: golden-brown grasses, dark green but wilting deciduous trees. The overall mood is sweltering, tense, the air thick and still. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, saturated colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich crossed with Adolph Menzel's industrial realism. Each technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: nacelle housings, lattice tower cross-bracing, panel junction boxes, cooling tower hyperbolic curves with condensation detail. No text, no labels.