Solar at 41.3 GW leads generation in near-windless summer heat, with 18 GW of thermal backup sustaining elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 63%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 13%
73%
Renewable share
0.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.3 GW
Solar
65.6 GW
Total generation
+3.7 GW
Net export
96.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.0°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
89.0% / 349.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
193
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 41.3 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the panorama, their aluminium frames glinting under a hazy, overcast-yet-bright midmorning sky with broken clouds letting shafts of diffused sunlight through. Brown coal 8.7 GW occupies the left background as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the humid air. Natural gas 5.6 GW appears as two compact CCGT plants with slender exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails positioned behind the solar field at centre-left. Hard coal 3.7 GW is rendered as a single coal-fired plant with a tall rectangular boiler house and chimney trailing grey smoke, set at the far left. Biomass 3.9 GW appears as a cluster of mid-sized biogas facilities with rounded digesters and short stacks nestled among green fields at centre-right. Hydro 1.8 GW shows as a small concrete run-of-river weir with rushing white water visible in a river cutting through the lower right foreground. Wind onshore 0.5 GW is a single distant three-blade turbine on a lattice tower on the far horizon, its blades barely turning in the still air. The sky is 89% overcast with layered alto-cumulus and strato-cumulus in grey-white tones, but a wide break allows warm golden-white direct sunlight to illuminate the central solar field; the atmosphere feels heavy, humid, oppressive — reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is 24 °C: lush green summer vegetation, tall grasses, mature deciduous trees in full leaf. Time is 10:00 AM in June: full daylight, sun moderately high in the southeast. The air is hazy with industrial moisture. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, golden and grey tonal contrasts, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.