Strong overnight wind drives 89% renewable share and 8.1 GW net exports at rock-bottom prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 67%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 4%
89%
Renewable share
41.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
52.8 GW
Total generation
+8.1 GW
Net export
6.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.6°C / 26 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
74
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 35.5 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, their rotors visibly spinning in strong wind; wind offshore 6.3 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines on the far-right horizon above a faint ribbon of sea; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a timber-stacked yard and a moderate smokestack emitting pale steam, occupying a modest area left of centre; natural gas 2.4 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and faint blue-tinged flare, tucked in the left-centre middle ground; brown coal 2.0 GW is shown as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising on the far left; hard coal 1.4 GW sits as a smaller conventional power station with a single square stack beside the lignite towers; hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small dam and weir in a stream in the lower foreground. TIME: 04:00 at night — the sky is completely black with no twilight or sky glow, heavy 100% overcast hiding all stars, deep navy-black cloud mass overhead. All structures are lit only by sodium-orange streetlights, industrial safety lighting, and the faint amber glow from plant windows. The wind is visibly strong: grass and young spring foliage on deciduous trees bends under 26 km/h gusts, and the cooling tower steam plumes shear sideways. Temperature is a mild 10.6°C spring night — no frost, green grass visible in lamp-light. The low electricity price is conveyed by a sense of calm spaciousness in the composition despite the wind energy. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of deep blues, blacks, warm ambers; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with receding rows of turbines fading into the murky distance; meticulous engineering detail on nacelles, rotor hubs, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT exhaust geometry, and biomass plant structure. No text, no labels.