Strong onshore and offshore wind at 35.8 GW drives 87.6% renewable share and 7.3 GW net exports at near-zero prices overnight.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 61%
Wind offshore 15%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 4%
88%
Renewable share
35.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
46.9 GW
Total generation
+7.4 GW
Net export
2.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.8°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
87% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
83
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 28.7 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling central German farmland from left of centre to the far right horizon, their rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 7.1 GW appears in the far right background as a line of larger turbines silhouetted on a distant dark sea horizon with red aviation warning lights blinking; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial plant with a wood-chip conveyor and a single tall stack emitting pale steam, positioned left of centre; natural gas 2.3 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a slender exhaust stack and low-level exhaust glow, tucked into the left-centre middle ground; brown coal 2.1 GW occupies the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of steam rising into the night air, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting; hard coal 1.4 GW sits adjacent as a smaller power station with a conveyor gantry and a single square chimney; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam structure with a faint white water cascade visible in the lower left foreground. The sky is completely dark — a deep navy-black canopy with no twilight, no glow on the horizon — overcast at 87% cloud cover so almost no stars are visible, only a faint diffuse lunar suggestion behind thick clouds. The landscape is early-spring Germany: bare deciduous trees just beginning to bud, cool-toned grass, patches of last frost. Temperature 7.8°C gives a slight ground mist weaving among the turbine bases. Artificial light dominates — sodium streetlamp amber pools along a country road in the foreground, white LED floodlights on the industrial facilities, red blinking lights atop every turbine tower stretching to the horizon. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the rock-bottom electricity price — no oppressive mood, instead a serene spaciousness. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, rich dark palette of Prussian blue, ivory black, warm amber, and cool grey-green, visible confident brushwork creating atmospheric depth, technically precise engineering details on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT stack, the composition conveying the quiet industrial sublime of a wind-powered nation sleeping under a dark spring sky. No text, no labels.