Strong overnight wind at 24.8 GW drives 80% renewable share while thermal plants provide residual support at 1 AM.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 52%
Wind offshore 14%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
80%
Renewable share
24.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
37.7 GW
Total generation
+1.8 GW
Net export
83.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.7°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
13% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
136
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 19.6 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles, their rotors turning in moderate wind, receding across rolling dark fields into deep perspective. Wind offshore 5.2 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on the far-right horizon over a sliver of dark sea. Brown coal 3.5 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lamps. Biomass 4.1 GW sits left of centre as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall rectangular stack and a modest glow from combustion, wood-chip storage visible. Natural gas 3.2 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with a single slender exhaust stack and a visible heat shimmer, its metal surfaces reflecting amber facility lights. Hard coal 0.9 GW is a small conventional boiler house with a single squat chimney just visible behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a narrow river in the mid-ground reflecting facility lights, with a low concrete dam barely discernible. The sky is completely dark — deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow — with a scattering of stars visible through only 13% cloud cover, thin wisps of cirrus catching faint starlight. The April landscape shows early spring: bare branches just beginning to bud, dark brown plowed fields, patches of new grass faintly visible under artificial light. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite clear skies, conveying the high electricity price — a brooding tension in the dark air. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, with rich, dark colour palette dominated by deep blues, blacks, warm sodium oranges, and cool industrial whites. Visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective fading distant turbines into darkness. Meticulous engineering detail on each technology: lattice sub-structures on turbine towers, aluminium cladding on the CCGT, riveted steel on the coal plant. The scene reads as a masterwork painting of the nocturnal industrial landscape. No text, no labels.