Wind and brown coal dominate overnight generation as gas-on-the-margin drives an elevated nighttime price of 96 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 27%
53%
Renewable share
17.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
42.6 GW
Total generation
+2.5 GW
Net export
95.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.3°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
31% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
345
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 16.1 GW spans the right half of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors turning slowly in light wind, red aviation warning lights blinking on nacelles. Brown coal 11.5 GW dominates the left third as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps. Natural gas 4.5 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 4.0 GW sits behind the gas plant as a large block station with a single wide chimney and coal conveyor belts illuminated by floodlights. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip fired plant with a modest stack and a warm glow from the boiler house, positioned centre-right. Hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small dam structure with spillway in the far centre background. Wind offshore 1.4 GW is suggested as a faint cluster of distant turbine lights on the far-right horizon. The time is 1:00 AM in March — the sky is completely black with a deep navy tone, no twilight, no moon visible, only a scattering of stars glimpsed through 31 percent broken cloud cover. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting a high electricity price — low haze sits over the industrial complex, sodium streetlights cast amber pools on wet roads. The landscape is early-spring central German rolling farmland, grass still brown and dormant, bare deciduous trees with no leaves, temperature near 5 °C suggested by a faint ground mist. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark colour palette of indigo, amber, and charcoal grey, visible expressive brushwork, atmospheric depth with layers of industrial haze receding into darkness. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and three-blade rotors, hyperbolic cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust stacks, coal conveyors. The scene feels like a monumental nocturnal industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels.