Solar at 48.3 GW drives 88% renewables and 4.9 GW net export on a hot, partly cloudy summer afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 75%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 8%
88%
Renewable share
3.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.3 GW
Solar
64.3 GW
Total generation
+4.9 GW
Net export
41.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
30.3°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
58.0% / 581.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
88
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 48.3 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic arrays stretching across rolling farmland, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition — rows of aluminium-framed blue-black panels glinting under strong afternoon sun. Brown coal 4.8 GW appears at the left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the sky. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed power station with a tall square stack and conveyor belt feeding shredded material. Wind onshore 2.3 GW stands as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Natural gas 1.8 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single polished exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer. Hydro 1.7 GW is suggested by a concrete dam and spillway visible in a river valley at the far right. Hard coal 1.1 GW appears as a single smaller conventional plant with a rectangular boiler house and chimney near the lignite complex. Wind offshore 0.7 GW is faintly visible as tiny turbines on a hazy northern horizon line. The sky is summer afternoon daylight at 14:00 — bright and warm, with broken cumulus clouds covering roughly half the sky, allowing intense direct sunlight to pour through wide gaps and cast dramatic light-and-shadow patterns across the vast solar fields. The atmosphere is hazy with summer heat at 30°C; vegetation is lush deep green, wheat fields turning gold at their edges, deciduous trees in full canopy. The air feels still, almost languid. The overall mood is moderate — not oppressive, not serene — matching a middling electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective softening distant elements, dramatic chiaroscuro from the cloud-broken sunlight — yet every technological element rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, panel wiring, cooling tower fluting, steam thermodynamics. No text, no labels.