Strong overnight wind drives 76% of generation, pushing net exports to 6.9 GW and prices near zero.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 60%
Wind offshore 17%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 5%
88%
Renewable share
34.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
45.5 GW
Total generation
+6.9 GW
Net export
1.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.1°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
83
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 27.1 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors turning steadily in the night breeze; wind offshore 7.5 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on the horizon over a dark sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain at far right; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of medium-scale industrial buildings with wood-chip silos and small chimneys emitting faint steam, positioned in the lower left midground; natural gas 2.2 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a modest vapour plume, situated left of centre; brown coal 2.1 GW is shown as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam columns rising into the darkness, placed at the far left; hard coal 1.3 GW is a smaller gritty power station with a conveyor belt and single stack beside the brown coal plant; hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam with water glinting faintly under artificial light in the lower right foreground. The time is 3 AM: the sky is completely black to deep navy, no twilight, no moon glow, heavy 100% cloud cover creating an opaque canopy with no stars visible. All structures are illuminated only by warm sodium-orange streetlights, red aviation warning lights blinking atop wind turbine nacelles, and the cool industrial glow from plant windows and floodlights. The temperature is 7°C in early April: bare branches on scattered trees are just beginning to show the faintest buds, damp grass glistens under lamplight. The low electricity price evokes a calm, open, expansive atmosphere despite the darkness — no oppression, just quiet nocturnal vastness. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, deep colour palette of indigo, Prussian blue, and warm amber highlights, visible confident brushwork, masterful atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, aluminium hub details, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.