Strong overnight wind at 28.5 GW combined drives 67% renewables, while 16.7 GW of thermal holds steady baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 47%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 11%
67%
Renewable share
28.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
50.6 GW
Total generation
+2.2 GW
Net export
81.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.7°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
224
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 23.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of towering three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers arrayed across rolling hills, rotors spinning in the night; wind offshore 4.8 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly visible sea line; brown coal 5.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes rising into the black sky; hard coal 5.4 GW sits just to the right of the lignite plant as a boxy industrial facility with twin rectangular chimneys emitting lighter grey exhaust; natural gas 5.9 GW appears as a pair of compact CCGT units with slender single exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer, positioned between the coal plants and the wind farm; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a rounded silo and short stack emitting pale vapour, nestled among trees at centre-left; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam with illuminated spillway visible in a valley in the middle distance. No solar panels anywhere — it is deep night. The sky is completely black with a dense 100% overcast ceiling of invisible clouds lit faintly from below by sodium-orange industrial glow; no stars, no moon, no twilight. Sodium streetlights cast pools of amber light on wet April roads. Spring vegetation is just beginning — bare branches with first pale green buds on deciduous trees, dark conifers. Light ground-level mist drifts through the turbine bases. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the elevated electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark colour palette of deep navy, coal black, amber, and muted industrial grey; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with fog layers receding into the distance; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. The scene evokes Caspar David Friedrich reimagining an industrial midnight. No text, no labels.