Strong onshore and offshore wind at 35.5 GW drives 86.5% renewables and 5.1 GW net export on a mild April night.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 61%
Wind offshore 14%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
86%
Renewable share
35.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
47.5 GW
Total generation
+5.1 GW
Net export
19.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.1°C / 23 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
81.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
89
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 29.1 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling central German hills, occupying roughly 60% of the canvas from centre to right; wind offshore 6.4 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of taller turbines standing in a dark sea glimpsed through a gap in the hills; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a tall stack and wood-chip storage domes glowing with warm interior light, occupying about 9% of the scene; natural gas 2.9 GW sits left of centre as a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack and a faint heat shimmer, about 6% of the composition; brown coal 2.5 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes lit from below by sodium lamps, about 5%; hard coal 1.0 GW is a smaller single-stack power station beside the brown coal plant, subtly smaller; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway in the lower-left foreground with white water catching artificial light. TIME AND LIGHTING: 23:00 at night—completely dark sky, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow; an 81% overcast ceiling hides stars almost entirely; the only illumination comes from sodium-orange streetlights along a country road, warm industrial lighting on the power stations, and red aviation warning lights blinking atop every turbine blade hub. The turbines' blades show strong motion blur consistent with 22.8 km/h winds; early spring vegetation—bare branches mixed with fresh green buds—on the hillsides; temperature 9°C suggests a cool damp atmosphere with faint mist around the cooling towers. PRICE MOOD: the low 19 EUR/MWh price is conveyed by a calm, open composition with generous negative space in the dark sky. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich—rich deep colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth—yet every turbine nacelle, lattice substation, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT exhaust stack is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.