Solar at 46.4 GW drives 12.7 GW net exports and near-zero prices on the summer solstice.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 78%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
91%
Renewable share
2.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
46.4 GW
Solar
59.4 GW
Total generation
+12.8 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.0°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
79.0% / 429.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
66
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 46.4 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling farmland, covering roughly three-quarters of the visible landscape, their aluminium frames catching diffuse midday light; brown coal 3.5 GW appears at the far left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising into hazy air; biomass 3.5 GW sits beside them as a cluster of modest industrial buildings with wood-chip silos and a single low smokestack; wind onshore 1.9 GW shows as a handful of three-blade turbines on distant hills, rotors barely turning in the near-still air; hydro 1.8 GW appears as a concrete dam with a thin cascade of water at the mid-left; natural gas 1.6 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer; wind offshore 0.5 GW is suggested as tiny turbines on a hazy horizon line beyond a distant coast; hard coal 0.4 GW is a single small stack barely visible. The sky is bright but milky — high thin clouds at 79% cover diffuse strong midday summer solstice sunlight, creating a luminous white-grey dome with patches of blue breaking through; the sun is near zenith, its disc visible but softened. Lush green summer vegetation — tall wheat fields, mature lindens and oaks in full canopy — fills the spaces between panels. The atmosphere is calm, warm, almost drowsy, with no wind motion in grass or leaves. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich greens and silvers, visible impasto brushwork in the clouds, atmospheric aerial perspective fading distant cooling towers into haze — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid-line, every riveted steel structure. No text, no labels.