Onshore wind at 38.9 GW drives overnight oversupply, clearing the day-ahead price to zero.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 68%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 6%
86%
Renewable share
44.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
57.6 GW
Total generation
+15.3 GW
Net export
0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.8°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
75% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
98
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 38.9 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling central German hills into the deep-navy darkness, red aviation warning lights blinking on every nacelle; wind offshore 5.4 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines on the far-right horizon, their lights reflected faintly on implied water; brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting ghostly white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 2.6 GW sits just right of the cooling towers as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a faint heat shimmer; hard coal 2.3 GW appears beside it as a blocky power station with a single large chimney and conveyor belts dimly illuminated; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a domed digester and a modest stack, warm interior light spilling through high windows; hydro 1.1 GW is a small concrete dam structure in the lower-left corner with water glistening under a single floodlight. The sky is completely dark — no twilight, no glow on the horizon — a deep black-navy sky at 2 AM, overcast at 75% so only faint patches of stars peek through ragged cloud gaps. The March landscape has bare deciduous trees and fresh early grass, temperature near 10°C suggesting mist curling at ground level around turbine bases. Wind at 13 km/h animates the scene: turbine blades caught mid-rotation, steam plumes bending gently eastward, thin fog drifting. The mood is calm and vast, reflecting the zero electricity price — open, unhurried, no oppressive atmosphere. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, deep colour palette of Prussian blue, ivory black, warm sodium-orange, and cool steel grey — visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with sfumato haze between foreground industrial structures and the endless receding wind farm, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower fluting, and gas-plant pipework. No text, no labels.