Solar delivers 40.9 GW under full overcast; 6.9 GW net export pushes day-ahead price to 1.4 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 75%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 7%
89%
Renewable share
1.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
40.9 GW
Solar
54.5 GW
Total generation
+6.8 GW
Net export
1.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.4°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
80
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 40.9 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition. Brown coal 3.8 GW appears at the left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a tall rectangular stack and conveyor belt beside a timber yard, positioned just right of the cooling towers. Hydro 1.8 GW is a concrete weir and small dam with turbine house nestled along a river in the middle distance. Natural gas 1.8 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single slender exhaust stack and modest heat-recovery unit. Wind onshore 1.5 GW is a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the light breeze. The sky is entirely overcast with a uniform, thick, bright-white cloud layer — full daytime at 10:00 AM on the summer solstice, so light is diffuse, even, and shadowless, with no direct sun visible. The atmosphere feels calm, expansive, and unhurried, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Lush green summer vegetation, wildflowers in field margins, deciduous trees in full leaf at roughly 20°C. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: nacelle housings, lattice towers, panel wiring, cooling-tower ribbing, conveyor gantries. No text, no labels.