Strong overnight wind drives 86% renewables, pushing exports to 3.6 GW and prices near zero.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 60%
Wind offshore 14%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 5%
86%
Renewable share
33.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
45.4 GW
Total generation
+3.6 GW
Net export
1.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.1°C / 23 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
29.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
93
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 27.4 GW dominates the scene as an enormous field of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling central German hills from left of centre to the far right horizon, rotors visibly spinning in strong wind; wind offshore 6.2 GW appears as a distant row of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly visible North Sea inlet; biomass 4.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of medium-scale industrial plants with cylindrical silos and small chimneys emitting pale exhaust lit from below; natural gas 2.8 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with single tall exhaust stacks and a faint blue-tinged flame visible at the gas inlet; brown coal 2.2 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers in the centre-left background emitting thin white steam plumes lit by sodium-orange industrial lighting; hard coal 1.4 GW is a smaller power station with a single rectangular stack beside the brown coal facility; hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and spillway in the lower-left corner with water gleaming under floodlights. TIME: midnight — completely dark sky, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow, a scattering of stars visible through 29% cloud cover with thin cirrus wisps; the only illumination comes from sodium streetlamps casting amber pools along a rural road in the foreground, red aviation warning lights blinking atop every turbine nacelle, and warm industrial floodlights on the thermal plants. Spring vegetation: fresh green grass and budding deciduous trees barely visible in the artificial light, temperature around 10°C suggesting light mist curling along the ground. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price — no oppressive clouds, a sense of quiet abundance. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour contrasts between amber artificial light and deep indigo sky, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with distant turbines fading into haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometry. The painting evokes Caspar David Friedrich's nocturnal grandeur fused with industrial realism. No text, no labels.