Strong onshore wind drives 87% renewable share at night, pushing 7.8 GW net exports despite persistent thermal baseload.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 68%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 7%
87%
Renewable share
45.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
58.1 GW
Total generation
+7.8 GW
Net export
73.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.5°C / 28 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
89
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 39.6 GW dominates the entire scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills from the centre to the far horizon, their rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind; wind offshore 5.8 GW appears in the distant background right as a cluster of tall monopile turbines rising from a dark sea glimpsed between hills; brown coal 3.8 GW occupies the lower left as a lignite power station with two large hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; biomass 4.3 GW sits in the left-centre as a medium-sized industrial plant with a rounded storage dome and a single smokestack with faint grey exhaust, warmly lit by yellow facility lights; natural gas 2.4 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a tall single exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, positioned between the coal plant and the wind turbines; hard coal 1.1 GW is a smaller conventional plant with a rectangular boiler house and a single narrow chimney, tucked beside the brown coal station; hydro 0.9 GW is suggested by a small dam structure at the base of a valley on the far left with water gleaming under artificial light. The sky is completely black, deep night at 22:00 in October, no twilight, no sky glow, only a blanket of 100% cloud cover faintly reflecting the orange glow of industrial lighting from below. The clouds are heavy and oppressive, pressed low, suggesting the elevated electricity price. Autumn vegetation — bare-branching deciduous trees, brown-gold remnant leaves, damp meadow grass bent by wind at 10.5°C. Wind visibly animates everything: turbine blades in rapid motion, steam plumes shearing sideways, grass flattened. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the warm industrial glow and the surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth receding into misty turbine silhouettes, meticulous engineering detail on every nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.