Strong overnight wind drives 75% renewables and 3 GW net exports despite firm thermal baseload commitments.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 54%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 11%
76%
Renewable share
31.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
47.5 GW
Total generation
+3.0 GW
Net export
85.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.3°C / 18 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
166
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 25.6 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills from the centre to the far right, rotors visibly turning in strong wind; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the horizon line over a dark sea glimpsed at far right; brown coal 5.3 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lights; natural gas 4.4 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with twin exhaust stacks releasing thin pale vapour, its angular turbine hall illuminated by industrial floodlights; hard coal 1.9 GW appears as a smaller coal plant behind the gas facility with a single tall smokestack and conveyor belt structure; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-sized plant with a rounded silo and wood-chip storage yard, warm light glowing from its windows, positioned between the coal and wind sections; hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river station barely visible at the far left beside a dark river reflecting industrial lights. TIME: 04:00 — completely dark, black sky with total 100% cloud cover meaning no stars visible, deep navy-black canopy overhead. All illumination comes from sodium-orange streetlights, industrial floodlights on facility walls, and the amber glow of furnace interiors seen through plant windows. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, hinting at the firm 85 EUR/MWh price — low thick clouds press down, catching the orange industrial glow from below. Autumn vegetation: bare-branched trees and brown grass visible at the edges of floodlit areas. Temperature 6.3°C suggested by faint mist curling around turbine bases and cooling tower feet. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's brooding darkness merged with industrial sublime — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth with layers of mist and cloud. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with anemometers, three-blade rotors with correct pitch, aluminium-clad CCGT housings, hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with visible ribbing. No text, no labels.