Strong onshore wind at 31.9 GW drives 86% renewable share at night, with 2.5 GW net export and moderate pricing.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 65%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 5%
86%
Renewable share
36.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
48.9 GW
Total generation
+2.4 GW
Net export
60.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.6°C / 28 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
91
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 31.9 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with lattice towers stretching across rolling central German hills from the centre to the far right and into the deep background, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the darkness. Wind offshore 4.8 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon, barely visible as rows of tiny red lights above an implied sea. Brown coal 2.5 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lights, with a lignite conveyor belt faintly visible. Natural gas 3.0 GW sits left-centre as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack releasing a thin heat shimmer, its modular turbine hall illuminated by industrial floodlights. Hard coal 1.3 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station behind the gas plant, a single stack with a faint plume. Biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a cluster of squat biogas digesters and a wood-chip CHP facility with a modest chimney, positioned centre-left with warm interior light spilling from service doors. Hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small dam structure in the far-left background with a thin cascade of water reflecting artificial light. The sky is completely dark — deep black to navy, 100% overcast so no stars or moon are visible, only a faint diffuse grey quality to the low cloud base reflecting the orange glow of distant towns. The wind is strong at 27.6 km/h: trees along the hillside lean noticeably, grass bends, and steam plumes from the cooling towers shear sharply to one side. Temperature is a cool 9.6°C in early spring: vegetation is sparse early-green, patches of bare soil visible, no flowers. The atmosphere is moderately heavy and close, reflecting the 60.6 EUR/MWh price — not oppressive but with a certain density and weight to the overcast. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich dark tones, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the industrial lights and the surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth achieved through layered fog and distance haze. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy — turbine nacelles, rotor hubs, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT modular housings. No text, no labels.