Strong overnight wind drives 69% renewables; coal and gas hold firm as Germany exports 2.3 GW into coupled markets.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 46%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 11%
69%
Renewable share
28.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
48.3 GW
Total generation
+2.3 GW
Net export
81.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.2°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
213
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 22.3 GW dominates the scene, filling the right two-thirds of the canvas as dozens of towering three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers receding across a dark rolling landscape, rotors spinning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 5.9 GW appears in the far-right background as a line of turbines rising from a barely visible dark sea horizon. Hard coal 5.2 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive coal-fired power station with tall rectangular boiler houses, conveyor belts, and twin concrete chimneys emitting thin grey exhaust, warmly lit by sodium floodlights. Brown coal 5.1 GW sits immediately adjacent as a cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes that drift rightward, illuminated from below by amber industrial lights. Natural gas 4.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant in the centre-left with a single tall exhaust stack and a visible heat recovery steam generator, its stainless cladding glinting under halogen worklights. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a smaller wood-clad CHP facility with a short rounded stack and a neat timber storage yard, tucked between the gas plant and the first wind turbines. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a modest dam and powerhouse in the distant left valley, a thin thread of white water barely visible. Time is 04:00 — deep night: the sky is completely black to deep navy, no twilight glow, no moon, full 100% cloud cover creating a featureless dark ceiling. The only light is artificial: sodium-orange streetlamps along a rural road, the warm glow of industrial floodlights on the power stations, and tiny red aviation warning lights blinking on every turbine nacelle. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting an 81 EUR/MWh price — low clouds press down, steam plumes flatten and spread, the air feels dense. Temperature is a cool 8°C early April: bare branches on scattered deciduous trees, new grass just emerging, patches of mud. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's brooding darkness meets industrial sublime — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric sfumato in the steam and cloud layers, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.