Solar at 32.7 GW drives 87.5% renewable share on a mild, partly cloudy May afternoon with 3.9 GW net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 71%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 7%
88%
Renewable share
2.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.7 GW
Solar
46.3 GW
Total generation
+3.9 GW
Net export
27.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.3°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
77% / 242.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
89
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 32.7 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire right two-thirds of the canvas, angled southward on metal racks, their blue-black surfaces reflecting a hazy bright sky. Brown coal 3.3 GW appears at the far left as two massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes drifting right, beside a lignite conveyor and boiler house. Biomass 4.1 GW sits left-of-centre as a cluster of mid-sized industrial plants with cylindrical wood-chip silos and modest stacks emitting thin pale exhaust. Wind onshore 1.9 GW is represented by a small group of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers on a gentle ridge in the distant centre-left, their blades barely turning in the still air. Natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and low rectangular heat-recovery unit, tucked between the biomass cluster and the solar fields. Hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse visible along a tree-lined river in the middle distance. Hard coal 0.7 GW is a single smaller stack with a wisp of dark smoke near the brown coal complex. The time is 4 PM in May: full afternoon daylight but filtered through 77% high cloud cover, creating a bright but diffuse, slightly milky sky with patches of blue and soft shadows on the ground. Temperature is a pleasant 17°C; spring vegetation is lush—bright green deciduous trees in full leaf, rapeseed fields showing fading yellow, fresh grass. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the moderate 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 layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to a hazy horizon, dramatic yet measured composition balancing industry and nature with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.