Wind and coal share the nighttime load as elevated prices reflect tight thermal margins at 03:00.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 13%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 19%
58%
Renewable share
23.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
48.8 GW
Total generation
+2.1 GW
Net export
100.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
3.1°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
67% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
300
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 16.5 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills into the far distance, rotors spinning in moderate wind; wind offshore 6.5 GW appears at the far right horizon as a distant cluster of offshore turbines barely visible above a dark North Sea; brown coal 9.1 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into the night sky, lit from below by amber sodium lights; hard coal 5.9 GW sits just right of centre-left as a pair of tall boiler houses with slender chimneys and red aviation warning lights, coal conveyors faintly illuminated; natural gas 5.7 GW appears in the centre as two compact CCGT blocks with single polished exhaust stacks venting thin heat haze, blue-white industrial lighting on their facades; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a wood-chip-fired plant with a modest single stack and glowing combustion chamber windows, positioned between the coal and gas facilities; hydro 1.1 GW is a small concrete dam visible in a valley to the far left, water faintly reflecting artificial light. TIME: 03:00 — completely dark sky, deep navy to black, no twilight, no moon visible, heavy 67% cloud cover obscuring stars, oppressive heavy atmosphere conveying the high electricity price. Temperature 3.1°C: bare deciduous trees, patches of frost on the ground, early spring with no green foliage. The landscape is a broad German lowland vista. Industrial facilities cast warm pools of sodium-orange and cool blue-white light onto the ground, with steam and exhaust creating atmospheric haze. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts, dramatic atmospheric depth reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich's nocturnes but depicting an industrial energy landscape with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.