Strong onshore wind drives 81.6% renewables at nightfall; 2.9 GW net export despite firm pricing at 86.7 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 60%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 10%
82%
Renewable share
37.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
52.4 GW
Total generation
+2.9 GW
Net export
86.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.6°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
28.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
134
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 31.7 GW dominates the scene, filling the right two-thirds of the canvas with dozens of tall three-blade wind turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors visibly spinning, stretching across rolling farmland into deep perspective. Wind offshore 5.9 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon edge, silhouetted against the dark sky. Brown coal 5.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers issuing thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lamps. Biomass 4.1 GW sits left-centre as a mid-sized plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack with faint exhaust. Natural gas 2.4 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a tall silver exhaust stack and waste-heat recovery unit, positioned centre-left. Hard coal 1.9 GW is rendered as a smaller coal station with a conveyor belt and single cooling tower, tucked behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway in a valley fold at the far left. Time is 20:00 in late September: the sky is fully dark, deep navy-black, no twilight glow whatsoever, only a scattering of stars visible through 28% partial cloud. All structures are lit by warm sodium streetlights and the amber glow of facility windows. The 14.6°C autumn air is conveyed through muted green-brown fields beginning to turn, leaves faintly yellowed on scattered deciduous trees. A sense of heavy, oppressive atmosphere pervades — hazy industrial light pressing against the dark canopy, reflecting the firm 86.7 EUR/MWh price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich, deep colour, visible impasto brushwork, and atmospheric chiaroscuro depth, yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.