Strong overnight wind yields 33.4 GW, creating 5.9 GW net export and near-zero prices at 3 AM.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 61%
Wind offshore 14%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 5%
87%
Renewable share
33.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
44.4 GW
Total generation
+5.9 GW
Net export
1.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.0°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
86
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 27.3 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind; wind offshore 6.1 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on the horizon above a dark North Sea glimpsed through a gap in terrain at far right; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial plant with a tall stack emitting a faint warm glow and thin steam plume, left of centre; natural gas 2.2 GW sits as a compact CCGT facility with a single polished exhaust stack and small vapour trail, lower left; brown coal 2.1 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of steam, far left background; hard coal 1.3 GW is a smaller gabled power station with a single smokestack beside the brown coal plant; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam with white water spilling at the lower left foreground. TIME: 3 AM, completely dark — black sky with no twilight, no sky glow, only a deep navy-black firmament under total 100% cloud cover so no stars visible. All structures lit by warm sodium-orange industrial lighting, glowing windows, and red aircraft-warning lights atop turbine nacelles blinking in sequence across the hills. The air is cool early April, bare deciduous trees with just the first tiny buds, last patches of old grass, ground damp. Atmosphere is calm and tranquil reflecting the extremely low electricity price — open, spacious composition with breathing room. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark colour palette of Prussian blue, raw umber, and warm orange artificial light, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with mist settling in valleys, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.