Strong overnight wind (29.6 GW) leads generation at 70.6% renewable share, with coal and gas providing 14.5 GW thermal backup.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 47%
Wind offshore 13%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 11%
71%
Renewable share
29.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
49.5 GW
Total generation
+2.1 GW
Net export
81.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.0°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
204
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 23.4 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling central German hills into deep darkness; wind offshore 6.2 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the black sky. Brown coal 5.3 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lamps. Hard coal 4.7 GW sits just right of the brown coal plant as a smaller station with a single tall smokestack and conveyor belt infrastructure, coal heaps faintly visible. Natural gas 4.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility in the left-centre middle ground with a slender exhaust stack and glowing turbine hall windows. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a small chimney and steam wisps, positioned centre-left. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam structure in a valley in the centre background, with a faint white streak of released water. Time is 04:00 — the sky is completely black, no twilight, no sky glow, deep navy-to-black overhead, only artificial light sources illuminate the scene: warm sodium-orange streetlights along a road in the foreground, cold white LED spotlights on the industrial facilities, red blinking lights atop every turbine nacelle and smokestack. Full 100% cloud cover means no stars are visible, the sky is a featureless dark void pressing down oppressively reflecting the 81 EUR/MWh price — the atmosphere feels heavy and claustrophobic. Temperature is 8°C in early April: bare deciduous trees with the first tiny buds, damp ground, mist pooling in the valleys between turbine rows. Ground-level wind speed is low at 3.2 km/h so ground-level fog wisps hang still, though the turbine blades at hub height turn steadily. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's darkness and atmospheric grandeur merged with industrial sublime — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and gas-turbine exhaust stack. No text, no labels, no human figures.