Strong overnight wind at 30.5 GW powers 70% of German demand, with thermal units providing the balance.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 56%
Wind offshore 14%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 7%
83%
Renewable share
30.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
43.9 GW
Total generation
+0.7 GW
Net export
88.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.7°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
90.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
116
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 24.6 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines stretching across rolling hills from the centre to the far right, their red aviation lights blinking in the darkness, lattice towers and nacelles rendered in precise engineering detail; wind offshore 5.9 GW appears in the distant far-right background as a faint cluster of turbine lights on a dark horizon line over an implied sea; biomass 4.1 GW occupies the centre-left as a mid-sized industrial plant with a squat smokestack emitting a thin warm plume, lit by sodium-orange facility lights; brown coal 2.9 GW sits at the left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers releasing white steam into the night, illuminated from below by industrial floodlights; natural gas 2.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a glowing heat-recovery unit, positioned between the coal plant and the biomass facility; hard coal 2.0 GW is a smaller coal plant just behind the brown coal towers with a conveyor belt structure and a single rectangular chimney; hydro 1.9 GW is suggested by a concrete dam structure in the lower left foreground with water glinting under artificial light. The sky is completely black to deep navy, no twilight, no sky glow — a true 23:00 summer night; 90% cloud cover means the sky is a heavy, oppressive ceiling of dark clouds faintly visible only where industrial light catches their undersides; no moon, no stars. The atmosphere is heavy and close, reflecting the high 88 EUR/MWh price. Temperature is mild at 13.7°C — lush summer vegetation, grass and deciduous trees in full leaf, rendered in dark greens visible only near light sources. Wind at 12.1 km/h causes gentle motion in grasses and tree canopies. The entire scene is painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the deep darkness and warm industrial illumination, atmospheric depth with layers of turbines receding into the night, the style of Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial realism. No text, no labels.