Strong overnight onshore wind drives 10.4 GW net export and a slightly negative price at 2 AM.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 68%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
89%
Renewable share
39.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
49.5 GW
Total generation
+10.4 GW
Net export
-0.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.6°C / 28 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
81.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
72
gCOâ‚‚/kWh
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Wind onshore 33.4 GW dominates over two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling central German farmland into darkness; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines on the far-right horizon with aviation warning lights blinking red; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial plant with a gently lit timber-frame fuel hall and a single stack releasing pale steam; brown coal 2.1 GW sits at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with faint steam illuminated from below by sodium lamps; natural gas 2.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single exhaust stack and a modest exhaust plume beside the cooling towers; hard coal 1.2 GW is a smaller conventional boiler house with a single chimney, dimly lit; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway glinting under artificial floodlight in the middle distance. TIME OF DAY: 2 AM — completely dark sky, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow, stars faintly visible between 81% cloud cover rendered as heavy low overcast partially obscuring the sky. Lighting comes only from sodium-orange streetlights along a country road, red aviation beacons on turbine nacelles, and warm industrial floodlights on the thermal plants. Spring vegetation: early green grass and budding trees barely visible in artificial light. Wind at 28 km/h animates the scene — turbine blades in vigorous rotation, steam plumes sheared sideways, grass bending. Atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the near-zero price — no oppressive haze, just cool clean April night air. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — think Caspar David Friedrich's nocturnal moods merged with meticulous industrial realism. Rich dark palette of Prussian blue, lamp-black, and warm sodium amber. Visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth receding into darkness, each energy technology rendered with correct engineering detail — nacelle housings, three-blade rotors, aluminium transformer stations, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower textures, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.