Strong overnight wind (30.8 GW) drives 78.5% renewable share while thermal plants hold steady baseload at 4 AM.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 56%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 0%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 8%
78%
Renewable share
30.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
45.6 GW
Total generation
+0.2 GW
Net export
84.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.1°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
149
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 25.3 GW dominates the scene as dozens of enormous three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling central German hills from the centre to the far right, blades visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.5 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines on the far-right horizon, their aviation warning lights blinking red against the black sky; brown coal 3.5 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lights; hard coal 3.2 GW sits adjacent as a large coal-fired station with a tall rectangular stack and conveyor infrastructure, faint glow from furnace openings; natural gas 3.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack and a visible turbine hall, illuminated by industrial floodlights; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a domed storage silo and a modest chimney trailing thin smoke, slightly left of centre; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam and turbine house nestled beside a dark river in the lower-left corner. Time is 4 AM in early July: the sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, scattered stars visible through perfectly clear skies with zero cloud cover, no twilight, no sky glow on the horizon. Temperature 13°C — lush green summer vegetation rendered in dark tones, dew glistening on grass under artificial light spill. The elevated 84.5 EUR/MWh price is conveyed through a heavy, brooding atmospheric quality — the air feels dense and still despite the turning blades, a faint industrial haze hugging the ground. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts, Romantic atmosphere of sublime industrial night, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and power-line insulator. No text, no labels.