Strong overnight wind at 28.2 GW nearly meets full demand, backed by lignite and biomass baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 53%
Wind offshore 15%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 11%
80%
Renewable share
28.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
41.8 GW
Total generation
-0.2 GW
Net import
83.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.8°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
138
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 22.1 GW dominates the scene as dozens of massive three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across a vast central German plateau, their rotors spinning briskly in strong wind, occupying roughly two-thirds of the composition from center to right. Wind offshore 6.1 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines on the far-right horizon, partly obscured by mist and darkness. Brown coal 4.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a lignite power station with two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that drift rightward in the wind, and a cluster of rectangular boiler buildings with tall stacks. Biomass 3.7 GW appears as a medium-sized industrial facility just left of center, a boxy plant with a single cylindrical stack and a glowing conveyor feed of wood chips visible through lit doorways. Natural gas 3.0 GW sits between the coal plant and biomass facility as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine unit with a sleek single exhaust stack and a smaller heat recovery steam generator housing. Hydro 1.6 GW is suggested by a small dam structure in the lower-left valley with faint white water spillway illuminated by sodium lamps. Hard coal 0.9 GW is a modest single-stack facility barely visible behind the lignite station. Time is 02:00 at night: the sky is completely black with no twilight, no stars visible due to 100% cloud cover — a heavy, oppressive overcast ceiling pressing low. All structures are lit only by sodium-orange industrial lighting, control room windows glowing white, and red aviation warning lights blinking atop every turbine nacelle and smokestack. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly humid at 10.8°C — a cool early-summer night. Lush green vegetation on rolling hills is barely discernible in the artificial light. The overall mood is weighty and oppressive, reflecting the elevated 83.4 EUR/MWh price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich deep blues, blacks, and warm sodium-orange highlights, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on each turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and gas turbine exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.