Strong onshore wind drives 78% renewables at night, with 4.9 GW net exports and moderate thermal baseload.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 60%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 0%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 10%
78%
Renewable share
28.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
43.9 GW
Total generation
+5.0 GW
Net export
68.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.1°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
148
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 26.5 GW dominates the scene, filling the right two-thirds of the composition as vast ranks of three-blade wind turbines on rolling central German hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking against a completely dark, overcast, black sky — no twilight, no moon, no sky glow. Brown coal 4.6 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps. Biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall cylindrical stack and conveyor belts carrying wood chips, warm interior light glowing through industrial windows. Natural gas 4.0 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack venting a thin, hot plume, situated left of centre, lit by bright white industrial floodlights. Wind offshore 2.2 GW is suggested in the distant background as a faint line of blinking red lights on the far horizon. Hard coal 1.0 GW appears as a small conventional plant with a single rectangular cooling tower and a modest smokestack, barely visible in the middle distance. Hydro 1.4 GW is depicted as a concrete run-of-river dam with green-tinted water rushing through illuminated spillways in the foreground valley. The sky is pitch black, 100% cloud cover, no stars visible, air temperature mild at 11°C with spring vegetation — fresh green grass, budding deciduous trees barely visible under artificial light. Wind visibly animates the scene: turbine blades mid-rotation, steam plumes sheared sideways, grass rippling. The atmosphere feels moderately heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 68.6 EUR/MWh price — low cloud pressing down on the industrial landscape. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich crossed with industrial realism, rich dark palette of navy, charcoal, amber, and burnt orange, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layers of turbines receding into darkness, meticulous engineering detail on each technology — lattice towers, nacelle housings, aluminium-framed structures, riveted steel. No text, no labels.