Strong overnight wind (28.2 GW) drives two-thirds renewable share; coal and gas persist; Germany exports 4.9 GW.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 11%
67%
Renewable share
28.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
50.3 GW
Total generation
+4.9 GW
Net export
79.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.0°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
227
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 22.3 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the composition as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, rotors spinning visibly in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.9 GW appears as a distant cluster of tall offshore turbines on the far-right horizon above a barely-visible dark sea line. Brown coal 5.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers exhaling pale steam into the black sky, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights. Hard coal 5.4 GW sits beside it as a dark blocky power station with twin stacks trailing grey smoke. Natural gas 6.0 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a visible heat shimmer, bathed in white facility lighting. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a modest wood-chip plant with a low cylindrical silo and a thin plume, tucked between the gas plant and the wind turbines. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam and penstock visible in a valley in the middle distance, with a faint cascade of water catching floodlight. The sky is completely black and starless, sealed by 100% cloud cover — no twilight, no moon, no sky glow — a deep impenetrable overcast April night. The only illumination comes from sodium streetlights along a country road in the foreground, orange-yellow industrial floodlights on the thermal plants, and scattered red aviation warning lights blinking atop turbine nacelles. Early spring vegetation: bare-branched trees with only the faintest haze of green buds, dormant brown grass at 6°C. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, hinting at the elevated electricity price — a thick, humid murk hangs between the cooling towers. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts, atmospheric depth receding into indigo-black distance — yet every piece of engineering is rendered with meticulous technical accuracy: turbine nacelle housings, three-blade rotor geometry, aluminium walkways on cooling towers, bolted steel flanges on gas exhaust stacks. No text, no labels.