Overnight wind at 45 GW drives 89% renewables, enabling 12 GW net export at near-zero prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 67%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 0%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 4%
89%
Renewable share
45.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
56.7 GW
Total generation
+12.2 GW
Net export
9.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.2°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
76
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 37.8 GW dominates the entire scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with lattice towers stretching across rolling hills from the centre to the far horizon, their rotors turning briskly; wind offshore 7.2 GW appears in the distant right background as a line of larger turbines rising from a dark North Sea; biomass 4.1 GW is depicted as a mid-ground industrial biomass plant with a glowing furnace visible through vents and a modest stack emitting pale steam; natural gas 2.6 GW occupies a small area at centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and warm sodium-lit piping; brown coal 2.0 GW appears at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes lit faintly from below by orange industrial lights; hard coal 1.8 GW sits adjacent as a smaller coal plant with a conveyor belt and single stack; hydro 1.1 GW is rendered as a small dam with water gleaming in reflected lamplight at the lower right foreground. The sky is completely dark — a deep navy-black midnight sky with no twilight, no moon glow, full 100% overcast cloud blanket faintly textured in charcoal tones. No stars visible. All structures are illuminated only by sodium-yellow and white industrial lighting, casting warm pools of light on wet spring grass and bare early-April trees just beginning to bud. Temperature 10°C — cool mist hangs in low valleys between turbine rows. The low electricity price is reflected in a calm, serene, open atmospheric feeling despite the darkness. No solar panels anywhere. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, moody colour palette of deep blues, blacks, warm ambers, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and gas-plant exhaust stack. The painting conveys the sublime industrial night — enormous scale, quiet power, humanity's infrastructure dwarfed by the dark sky. No text, no labels.