Massive onshore wind dominance at night, supplemented by thermal plants, with Germany importing 1.5 GW to meet evening demand.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 61%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 8%
81%
Renewable share
40.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
56.7 GW
Total generation
-1.5 GW
Net import
69.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.5°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
8% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
126
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 34.6 GW dominates the scene, filling the right two-thirds of the canvas with vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling hills into deep darkness, rotors caught mid-spin with subtle motion blur. Wind offshore 5.9 GW appears at the far right horizon as distant turbines silhouetted against the dark North Sea, marked by red aviation warning lights. Brown coal 4.3 GW occupies the left foreground as a lignite power station with two massive hyperbolic cooling towers exhaling thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by amber sodium lights. Natural gas 4.9 GW sits center-left as a compact CCGT facility with tall single exhaust stacks and a thin, hot shimmer of exhaust, its building facades glowing with industrial lighting. Hard coal 1.6 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single stack and conveyor belt, tucked behind the gas facility. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a modest chimney and a warm-lit feedstock yard. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small illuminated dam structure at the base of distant hills. The sky is completely dark — a deep black-navy March night at 21:00 in central Germany, with a nearly clear sky (8% cloud cover) revealing thousands of stars and a faintly visible Milky Way. The 7.5 °C early-spring air produces a thin mist hovering over bare-branched deciduous trees and brown-green meadows in the foreground. The atmosphere carries a moderately oppressive, heavy industrial quality reflecting the 69.8 EUR/MWh price — smoke and steam weigh on the air. All artificial light sources — orange sodium streetlamps along country roads, red blinking nacelle lights on wind turbines, white-blue industrial floodlights on thermal plants — provide the only illumination, casting long reflections on wet ground. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperbola, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.