Strong onshore and offshore wind (36.4 GW combined) dominate nighttime generation, enabling 5.5 GW net exports at low prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 61%
Wind offshore 15%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
87%
Renewable share
36.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
48.3 GW
Total generation
+5.5 GW
Net export
19.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.6°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
89% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
87
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 29.3 GW dominates the scene, filling the right two-thirds of the canvas with vast rows of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling spring farmland, rotors visibly spinning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 7.1 GW appears as a distant line of taller turbines on the far-right horizon, their red aviation lights blinking against a black sea. Biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip conveyor and modest stack emitting pale exhaust, positioned left of center. Natural gas 2.9 GW sits as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer, placed in the center-left. Brown coal 2.4 GW occupies the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes lit from below by sodium floodlights. Hard coal 1.1 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular cooling tower beside the brown coal facility. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway structure in the lower-left foreground, water catching faint industrial light. The time is 23:00—completely dark, deep navy-to-black sky, no twilight, no sky glow; the only light comes from sodium-orange streetlamps along access roads, red and white aviation warning lights on turbine nacelles, and the warm industrial glow of the thermal plants. The sky is 89% overcast, so almost no stars are visible, just a heavy blanket of low clouds faintly reflecting the amber industrial light from below. Early spring vegetation—short new grass, bare-branched trees beginning to bud—is barely discernible in the dim light. Temperature is cool at 6.6°C, suggesting a slight mist near the ground. The low electricity price is evoked by a calm, open, unhurried atmosphere despite the darkness. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich, dark palette of deep blues, blacks, and warm ambers; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with layers of turbines receding into darkness; meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower geometries, and CCGT exhaust stacks. No text, no labels.