Dominant onshore and offshore wind drives 88% renewable share at midnight, pushing 7 GW net exports at near-zero prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 61%
Wind offshore 16%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 4%
88%
Renewable share
36.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
47.7 GW
Total generation
+7.0 GW
Net export
3.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.3°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
92% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
81
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 29.1 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines stretching across the entire right two-thirds of the composition, their white lattice towers and nacelles receding in atmospheric perspective across rolling North German plains; wind offshore 7.5 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on the far horizon above a dark sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized industrial buildings with wood-chip conveyors and modest steam stacks in the centre-left; natural gas 2.3 GW appears as two compact CCGT units with slender single exhaust stacks emitting thin plumes, positioned left of centre; brown coal 2.1 GW occupies the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy steam columns and a low lignite conveyor belt; hard coal 1.3 GW sits beside the brown coal as a smaller conventional boiler house with a single tall chimney; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway in the lower-left foreground with white water catching faint light. Time is midnight: the sky is completely black to deep navy, no twilight, no sky glow, heavy 92% overcast obscuring all stars. The only illumination comes from sodium-orange streetlights lining a rural road in the foreground, warm amber safety lights on turbine nacelles blinking red, and the industrial glow of the thermal plants — furnace light spilling from coal facilities, lit control-room windows, and floodlit steam plumes. Early spring vegetation: bare-branched trees just beginning to bud, damp green-brown grass at 8°C. Wind at 9.4 km/h gives gentle motion to grass and slight steam-plume drift. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the very low electricity price — no oppressive haze, just peaceful nocturnal stillness. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich dark tones, visible confident brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the black sky and warm industrial glow, atmospheric depth conveyed through layered fog and distance, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine blade, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.