Onshore wind at 30 GW drives a 12.3 GW net export overnight, with brown coal providing residual baseload.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 58%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 12%
79%
Renewable share
36.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
51.7 GW
Total generation
+12.3 GW
Net export
39.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.8°C / 10 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
156
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 30.0 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling hills from the centre to the far right, rotors turning briskly; brown coal 6.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a lignite power station with three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange facility lights; wind offshore 5.9 GW appears on the distant horizon line at centre-left as a cluster of turbines standing in dark water, their red aviation warning lights blinking; natural gas 2.6 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and smaller vapour trail, tucked between the coal station and the wind farm; hard coal 2.0 GW shows as a smaller conventional plant with a rectangular chimney and modest steam, near the lignite station; biomass 3.6 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip conveyor and low stack, warm interior glow visible through tall windows; hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir in the lower-left corner with foaming white water catching artificial light. Time is 02:00 at night — the sky is completely black with heavy 100% overcast clouds, no stars, no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever; all illumination comes from sodium streetlamps casting orange pools, red blinking nacelle lights on turbine tops, and the industrial glow of power station windows and floodlights. Temperature is 10.8°C in late September: vegetation is dark green turning to early autumn browns, dew glistens on grass. Wind at 10.2 km/h gives moderate motion to tree branches and turbine blades. The atmosphere is calm and workmanlike, not oppressive — the moderate price reflected in a neutral, quietly industrious mood. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich, deep colour palette of navy, black, warm orange, and cool grey; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth and sfumato in the steam plumes; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT stack. No text, no labels.