Strong onshore wind dominates overnight generation at 79% renewables, with thermal plants providing residual baseload.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 56%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 7%
79%
Renewable share
31.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
45.9 GW
Total generation
+1.5 GW
Net export
85.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.1°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
39.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
142
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 25.6 GW dominates the scene, filling the right two-thirds of the canvas with vast rows of three-blade wind turbines on rolling hills, their red aviation lights blinking rhythmically against a completely dark, deep-navy night sky with scattered stars visible through 39% cloud cover. Wind offshore 5.5 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon, their warning lights forming a faint orange constellation above a barely visible dark sea line. Brown coal 3.1 GW occupies the far left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights, glowing against the black sky. Hard coal 3.3 GW sits adjacent as a large power station with blocky boiler houses, conveyor structures, and a tall chimney stack emitting a thin grey plume, all illuminated by harsh white floodlights. Natural gas 3.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility in the left-center with a single tall exhaust stack and a streamlined turbine hall, its metal surfaces gleaming under security lighting. Biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a rounded storage dome and a modest smokestack, nestled between the fossil plants and the wind turbines, warmly lit. Hydro 1.7 GW appears as a small dam structure in a valley in the middle distance, with a faint glow from its powerhouse windows. No solar panels visible anywhere — it is deep night with zero solar radiation. The atmosphere is slightly heavy and hazy despite the moderate wind, reflecting the elevated 85.9 EUR/MWh price — a faint industrial mist hangs in the lowlands, tinted amber by scattered sodium streetlights of a small German town in the middle ground. Summer vegetation is lush and green but rendered in muted nocturnal tones — dark greens and blue-blacks. Temperature is a mild 14°C summer night, with slight dew on grass visible in foreground detail. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, with rich chiaroscuro, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth, dramatic interplay of industrial artificial light against the vast dark sky, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.