Solar at 33.1 GW drives a 4.6 GW net export and zero-price hour with 92% renewables.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 65%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
9.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.1 GW
Solar
51.2 GW
Total generation
+4.6 GW
Net export
0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.9°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
88.0% / 556.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
52
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#1
Furnace Hour
Image prompt
Solar 33.1 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle rolling hills in the right two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under bright but hazy afternoon light filtering through high broken clouds. Wind onshore 6.7 GW appears as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a ridgeline in the centre-left middle distance, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 2.5 GW is visible far in the background as a line of turbines standing in a silver strip of sea on the distant horizon. Biomass 4.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a modest wood-chip power station with a rectangular boiler building and a single chimney emitting thin white exhaust. Brown coal 1.9 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers at the far left, their steam plumes thin and wispy, partially idle. Natural gas 1.7 GW sits just behind the biomass plant as a compact CCGT unit with a single sleek exhaust stack releasing a faint heat shimmer. Hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small river weir and penstock visible in the valley below. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a small dark industrial block near the cooling towers, barely smoking. The hour is 16:00 in late spring central Germany: full afternoon daylight, the sky 88% covered by high thin broken cloud layers with patches of vivid blue, direct sunlight punching through gaps to illuminate the solar fields in bright pools while other areas sit in soft diffuse light. Temperature is warm at 26°C; lush green late-spring vegetation covers hillsides, wildflowers dot meadow edges, trees are in full leaf. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the zero electricity price — no oppressive haze, a serene luminosity. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to pale blue at the horizon — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower hyperbolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.