Strong onshore wind drives 80% renewables at night; Germany exports 5.3 GW despite elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 58%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 8%
80%
Renewable share
37.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
52.9 GW
Total generation
+5.3 GW
Net export
114.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.2°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
134
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 31.0 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade wind turbines stretching across rolling hills into deep darkness, their red aviation warning lights blinking in rhythmic patterns; wind offshore 6.3 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon with faint red lights above a black sea; brown coal 4.1 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting; natural gas 4.7 GW sits center-left as a compact CCGT power station with twin exhaust stacks releasing thin white exhaust, illuminated by harsh white floodlights on its steel framework; hard coal 1.9 GW appears as a smaller power plant behind the gas station with a single stack and coal conveyor belt visible under spotlights; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad biomass facility with a gently smoking chimney to the far left; hydro 0.9 GW appears as a small dam structure in the lower-left corner with water faintly reflecting industrial light. The sky is completely black and starless under 100% cloud cover, heavy and oppressive to reflect the high 114.2 EUR/MWh price — no twilight glow, no moon, pure night darkness. The September landscape at 17°C shows late-summer green vegetation barely visible in scattered pools of orange sodium streetlight. Wind visibly bends the grass and trees. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich's brooding atmosphere merged with industrial sublime — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between artificial light and surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth conveying the scale of the turbine fields disappearing into the clouded void. Meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, lattice tower, cooling tower curvature, and gas plant pipework. No text, no labels.