Powerful overnight wind drives 42.7 GW combined generation, creating 11.9 GW net export and near-zero prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 62%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 6%
83%
Renewable share
42.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
58.0 GW
Total generation
+11.9 GW
Net export
4.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.5°C / 32 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
79.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
124
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 36.0 GW dominates the entire scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling hills from the centre to the far horizon, rotors visibly blurred with motion in strong wind; wind offshore 6.7 GW appears in the distant background right as a cluster of larger offshore turbines rising from a dark sliver of sea barely visible at the horizon; hard coal 3.9 GW occupies the lower left as a compact coal-fired power station with rectangular cooling towers trailing thin white steam and a tall brick chimney; brown coal 3.7 GW sits adjacent to the hard coal plant as a pair of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with faint steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lights; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack with pale exhaust, positioned centre-left; natural gas 2.5 GW appears as a small CCGT plant with a sleek exhaust stack and compact turbine housing, tucked behind the biomass facility; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam structure with flowing water barely visible in the lower right corner. Time is 04:00 in late March — the sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight whatsoever, no moon visible, heavy cloud cover at 79% obscuring any stars. All structures are illuminated only by artificial light: sodium-orange streetlamps along access roads, white industrial floodlights on plant buildings, red aviation warning lights blinking atop turbine nacelles receding into darkness. The temperature is 3.5°C — bare late-winter trees with no leaves, patches of frost on brown grass, breath-like mist near ground level. Wind is strong at 31.7 km/h — bare branches bend, steam plumes from cooling towers shear sideways sharply. The low electricity price of 4.4 EUR/MWh evokes a calm, open, unburdened atmosphere despite the darkness. The landscape is flat northern German terrain. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale and atmospheric depth merged with meticulous industrial-engineering accuracy. Rich dark blues, warm sodium oranges, cold steel greys, visible confident brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between lit facilities and surrounding darkness. No text, no labels, no people.