Solar at 39.5 GW drives net exports of 8.0 GW and a zero day-ahead price on a warm June afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 74%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
3.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
39.5 GW
Solar
53.5 GW
Total generation
+8.0 GW
Net export
0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.9°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
57.0% / 533.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
71
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 39.5 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German hills, occupying roughly three-quarters of the composition, their blue-black surfaces glinting under bright afternoon sun filtered through partial cloud cover. Brown coal 3.4 GW appears at the far left as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising lazily into the hazy sky, flanked by a lignite conveyor and ash-grey boiler house. Biomass 3.4 GW sits behind the solar fields as a cluster of modest wood-chip-fired plants with short stacks and small biomass storage silos. Wind onshore 2.9 GW is represented by a small group of modern three-blade horizontal-axis turbines on lattice-free tubular towers standing nearly motionless on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Hydro 1.7 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir with green water spilling through gates in a tree-lined valley at right. Natural gas 1.6 GW is a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a slim heat-recovery steam generator, tucked modestly beside the cooling towers. Wind offshore 0.7 GW is hinted at as tiny turbines on the far horizon line. The sky at 3 PM is bright summer daylight, a mix of cumulus clouds across roughly half the sky with generous blue gaps, the sun high and warm casting defined shadows. The temperature is conveyed through lush deep-green deciduous foliage, ripening wheat fields between panel rows, and a slight heat shimmer above the dark panels. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the zero electricity price — spacious, unhurried, almost drowsy in the summer warmth. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every panel junction box, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.