Strong onshore wind drives 86% renewables, creating 8.8 GW net exports under overcast pre-dawn skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 64%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 0%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 4%
86%
Renewable share
40.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
53.4 GW
Total generation
+8.8 GW
Net export
13.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.8°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
91
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 34.1 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling central German hills, occupying roughly two-thirds of the composition; wind offshore 6.5 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on a grey North Sea horizon visible through a gap in the terrain at the far right; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-ground combined heat-and-power plant with a tall stack and wood-chip storage silos; natural gas 3.2 GW sits as a compact CCGT facility with a single slim exhaust stack and modest steam wisp in the centre-left middle ground; brown coal 2.2 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes on the far left; hard coal 1.9 GW is a smaller coal-fired station with a rectangular boiler house and single stack beside the lignite plant; hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a foreground river. TIME AND LIGHT: early dawn at 06:00 in April — the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no solar panels visible anywhere; 100% cloud cover creates a uniform heavy overcast with no stars. The landscape is spring with fresh pale-green budding trees and damp meadows at 9.8°C. Wind at 11.4 km/h sets turbine blades in gentle rotation and bends young grasses. The low electricity price is reflected in a calm, open, spacious atmosphere without oppressive weight. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with misty layering of hill ridges, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack, warm sodium-orange artificial lights glowing from industrial facilities in the pre-dawn darkness, dramatic yet serene composition reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial realism. No text, no labels.