Solar at 44.8 GW under clear skies drives 11.8 GW net exports and near-zero prices on a hot June afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 76%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
4.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
44.8 GW
Solar
59.1 GW
Total generation
+11.8 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
29.5°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 676.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
51
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 44.8 GW dominates the entire scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green summer hills, occupying roughly three-quarters of the composition, their glass surfaces blazing white under a perfectly cloudless, calm midday sky at 14:00 in full bright sunlight. Wind onshore 3.2 GW appears as a modest cluster of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a distant ridge, blades turning slowly in a light breeze. Wind offshore 1.3 GW is suggested by a faint line of turbines on a hazy horizon near a river or lake edge. Biomass 3.4 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip power plant with a compact smokestack and timber storage yard nestled among trees at the mid-ground left. Brown coal 2.4 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin wisps of steam, set far in the background left, partially screened by summer foliage. Hydro 1.9 GW shows as a weir and small dam with water cascading through turbine gates in a shaded valley at the lower-left corner. Natural gas 1.6 GW is a single compact CCGT unit with a slender exhaust stack, barely steaming, tucked beside the biomass plant. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a distant small industrial stack, almost lost in haze. The vegetation is lush midsummer green, grasses tall, wildflowers in meadows, lime and beech trees in full leaf, consistent with 29.5°C heat — a slight shimmer of heat haze rises from the panels. The sky is serene, open, and luminous pale blue with no clouds, conveying the near-zero electricity price as calm spaciousness. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth combined with meticulous industrial-engineering accuracy — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, warm golden light, long atmospheric perspective. No text, no labels.