Onshore wind at 48.7 GW drives 87.8% renewable share and 18.1 GW net exports at near-zero prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 72%
Wind offshore 8%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 5%
88%
Renewable share
54.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
67.4 GW
Total generation
+18.1 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.8°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
75% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
85
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 48.7 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with lattice towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling central German hills, occupying roughly 72% of the composition from centre to right and deep into the background; wind offshore 5.4 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly visible coastline; brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of white steam rising against the night sky, lit from below by amber sodium lamps within a fenced industrial compound; hard coal 2.3 GW sits just left of centre as a smaller power station with a single tall smokestack and conveyor belt structures, glowing under industrial floodlights; natural gas 2.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single polished exhaust stack and low-profile turbine hall, positioned between the coal plants, its metal surfaces catching orange artificial light; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip-fed plant with a modest chimney and a covered fuel storage dome, placed in the left-centre middle ground; hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with a concrete spillway visible in the lower-left foreground beside a dark stream. TIME: 2:00 AM — completely dark sky, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow, stars partially obscured by 75% cloud cover rendered as heavy grey masses dimly backlit by a hidden moon. Temperature 9°C in late March: bare deciduous trees with just the first hints of budding, dormant brown grass, patches of early spring green barely visible. Wind at 13 km/h animates the turbine blades with moderate rotational blur and causes slight bending in roadside saplings. The mood is calm and open despite darkness, reflecting the near-zero electricity price — no oppressive atmosphere, just vast quiet industry. Sodium streetlights along a country road cast pools of warm amber on wet asphalt. A few lit farmhouse windows dot the middle distance. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, deep colour palette of indigo, charcoal, umber, and warm amber; visible confident brushwork; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack; atmospheric depth achieved through layered darkness and selective illumination; the composition evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sublime scale but applied to the modern industrial energy landscape. No text, no labels.