Strong overnight wind at 35.1 GW drives 78% renewables, suppressing prices to 14.1 EUR/MWh with 5.3 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 58%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 12%
78%
Renewable share
35.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
51.1 GW
Total generation
+5.3 GW
Net export
14.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
1.6°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
6% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
156
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 29.5 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with lattice towers stretching across rolling central German hills from the centre to the far right, rotors turning steadily; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly visible coastline. Brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a lignite power station with three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lamps. Biomass 3.8 GW sits as a mid-ground facility with a cylindrical silo and low exhaust stack, warmly lit by facility floodlights. Natural gas 3.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer, positioned left of centre. Hard coal 2.1 GW is a smaller coal-fired station with a rectangular boiler house and single squat cooling tower, tucked behind the lignite complex. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway visible in a valley to the far left, with water glinting under a single floodlight. TIME: 03:00 — deep night, completely black sky with no twilight or sky glow, a brilliant canopy of winter stars and the Milky Way overhead, a thin crescent moon near the horizon. Temperature near freezing: bare dormant trees with frost on branches, patches of residual snow on north-facing slopes, frozen puddles reflecting orange industrial light. Cloud cover only 6%, so the sky is almost perfectly clear. Wind moderate: grass bending slightly, occasional flag-flutter on turbine nacelles. Low electricity price atmosphere: the sky feels vast, calm, and open, no oppressive weight. Lighting comes exclusively from artificial sources — sodium streetlights along an access road, white LED floodlights on the power stations, red aviation warning lights blinking atop every turbine tower in rhythmic sequence receding into the distance. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, deep colour palette of Prussian blue, lamp black, and warm amber; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with industrial steam dissolving into the starlit darkness; meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, aluminium lattice towers, hyperbolic cooling tower shells with condensation streams, CCGT exhaust geometry. The painting conveys the sublime scale of industrial infrastructure under a vast nocturnal sky. No text, no labels.