Strong onshore wind (33.8 GW) dominates nighttime generation at 82% renewables, with coal and gas balancing residual load.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 62%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 8%
82%
Renewable share
39.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
54.6 GW
Total generation
-0.1 GW
Net import
62.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.1°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
122
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 33.8 GW dominates the scene, filling the entire right two-thirds of the canvas with vast rows of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling hills into deep darkness, red aviation warning lights blinking on nacelles. Wind offshore 5.8 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon over a dark sea glimpsed between hills. Brown coal 4.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with two hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights. Biomass 4.1 GW sits as a mid-sized wood-chip-fed plant with a single tall stack and a glowing biomass storage dome adjacent to the coal station. Natural gas 3.8 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single gleaming exhaust stack and heat recovery unit, positioned centre-left with blue-white floodlights. Hard coal 1.6 GW appears as a smaller traditional coal plant with a conveyor belt and modest smokestack in the left background. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam and penstock visible in a valley in the mid-ground. The sky is completely black — no twilight, no glow on the horizon — a clear starlit March night with zero cloud cover, the Milky Way faintly visible above, temperature around 7°C giving a crisp atmosphere with light ground mist in the valleys. Early spring vegetation: bare deciduous trees with the first subtle buds, brown-green dormant grass. The atmosphere is moderately tense — not oppressive but with a certain industrial weight reflecting the 62.5 EUR/MWh price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette of deep navy, warm sodium orange, cool steel blue; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with layers receding into darkness; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and exhaust stack. The painting conveys the drama of industrial night — humanity's infrastructure alive and humming under the stars. No text, no labels.