Wind, brown coal, and gas drive a 20 GW net export at 3 AM under heavy cloud cover.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 34%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 16%
70%
Renewable share
16.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.1 GW
Solar
61.6 GW
Total generation
+20.1 GW
Net export
113.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.0°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
85.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
219
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 10.0 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the dark sky; wind onshore 13.7 GW fills the centre-right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling farmland, rotors turning steadily; wind offshore 2.4 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon with tiny red aviation lights blinking; natural gas 4.6 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with slender exhaust stacks and heat-shimmer halos; hard coal 4.1 GW appears beside the brown coal station as a smaller conventional plant with a single large chimney and coal conveyor belt visible; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and modest stack; hydro 1.5 GW is a small dam structure in the lower foreground with water gleaming faintly. TIME: 03:00 at night — completely dark sky, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow, stars fully obscured by 85% heavy cloud cover creating an oppressive low overcast ceiling. All facilities lit by sodium-orange industrial floodlights and safety lighting, casting warm pools on the ground. The atmosphere feels heavy and dense, hinting at the high electricity price — a brooding, weighty industrial darkness. Spring vegetation: young green grass and leafed-out trees barely visible in artificial light, temperature mild at 12°C with slight ground mist drifting between the turbine towers. Wind at 9.4 km/h stirs the mist gently. Transmission lines with red obstruction lights recede into the darkness toward export borders. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette dominated by deep indigo, charcoal, warm sodium orange, and ghostly white steam — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, and gas stack. No text, no labels.