Strong overnight wind generation at 27 GW nearly meets full German demand, with thermal plants providing residual baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 50%
Wind offshore 16%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 7%
79%
Renewable share
26.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
40.8 GW
Total generation
-0.3 GW
Net import
85.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.4°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
31.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
135
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 20.5 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with lattice towers stretching across rolling hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors spinning in moderate wind; wind offshore 6.5 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on the horizon beyond a dark coastal inlet at far right; natural gas 3.9 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility in the centre-left with slender exhaust stacks releasing thin pale plumes; biomass 3.7 GW appears as a modest industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and single smokestack just left of centre; brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the left foreground as two hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam, lit from below by orange sodium lights; hydro 1.7 GW is depicted as a concrete dam with spillway in the lower-left valley; hard coal 1.5 GW shows as a smaller power station with a single rectangular chimney near the brown coal facility. The scene is set at 2 AM in mid-June: completely dark sky, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow, stars faintly visible through 31% cloud patches. The landscape is lit only by artificial sources — sodium-orange streetlights along a road, glowing industrial windows, red aviation warning lights blinking atop the wind turbines, and the amber glow from coal plant furnaces reflecting off cooling tower steam. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive, with warm-toned industrial haze suggesting elevated electricity prices. Vegetation is lush early-summer green visible only where lamp-light falls — tall grasses, deciduous trees in full leaf. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, with rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the black sky and artificial orange light, atmospheric depth with misty middle-ground, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and CCGT stack. No text, no labels.