Strong onshore wind drives 87% renewable share at night, enabling 4.9 GW net export despite modest thermal backup.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 64%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 0%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
87%
Renewable share
40.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
52.7 GW
Total generation
+4.9 GW
Net export
81.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.8°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
84
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 33.9 GW dominates the entire scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills from foreground to deep background, their rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind; wind offshore 6.6 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines on the far horizon over a dark sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip conveyor and a single smokestack emitting pale steam, placed in the lower-right middle ground; natural gas 3.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a modest steam plume, positioned in the centre-left middle ground; brown coal 2.4 GW is depicted as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with faint white steam rising, placed to the far left; hard coal 1.3 GW shows as a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular stack beside the brown coal complex; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir glinting faintly in the lower foreground. TIME AND LIGHTING: fully night, 22:00 in April — completely black sky with no twilight glow, no stars visible due to 100% overcast cloud ceiling pressing low, sky deep charcoal-grey blending to black overhead; all structures lit only by sodium-orange industrial lighting, small red aviation warning lights blinking atop turbine nacelles and stacks, warm glowing windows in control buildings. WEATHER: strong wind bends bare early-spring grasses and young leafless trees, clouds heavy and low, temperature near 8°C suggesting damp cool air with subtle mist around cooling tower bases. ATMOSPHERE: oppressive heavy sky reflecting the 81.3 EUR/MWh price — a brooding, weighty canopy pressing down on the landscape. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of deep navy, charcoal, warm sodium orange, and cool steel grey — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric sfumato in the distant turbine rows, meticulous engineering detail on nacelles, three-blade rotors, aluminium-framed structures, cooling tower parabolic curves with condensation plumes, CCGT exhaust geometry — the grandeur of Caspar David Friedrich applied to a modern industrial nightscape. No text, no labels.