Strong onshore wind drives 88.9% renewable share at 2 AM, pushing prices negative and enabling 6.1 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 67%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
89%
Renewable share
35.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
45.7 GW
Total generation
+6.1 GW
Net export
-0.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.7°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
89% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
75
gCOâ‚‚/kWh
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Wind onshore 30.5 GW dominates the entire scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling central German hills, occupying roughly two-thirds of the composition; wind offshore 5.0 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines on the far horizon over a dark sea glimpsed through a valley gap; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single tall stack emitting pale steam; natural gas 2.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single exhaust stack and low-profile turbine hall, lit by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; brown coal 2.0 GW is depicted as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with faint steam plumes rising into the darkness, lit from below by amber facility lights; hard coal 1.1 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a rectangular boiler house and single chimney, glowing dimly; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with churning white water in the foreground. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no moon visible, heavy 89% cloud cover obscuring stars entirely. The only illumination comes from sodium streetlights along a road, amber and white floodlights on industrial buildings, and red aviation warning lights blinking atop the nearest turbine towers. Early spring vegetation: bare branches with the faintest hint of new green buds on hedgerows, dormant grass. Wind is visibly strong — turbine blades caught mid-rotation with slight motion blur, steam plumes sheared sideways. The atmosphere is calm and open despite the overcast, reflecting the near-zero price — no oppressive weight, just quiet nocturnal industrial energy. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich dark palette of Prussian blue, lamp black, raw umber, and warm amber highlights — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with misty layers between turbine rows, meticulous engineering detail on every nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.