Strong onshore wind drives 79.5% renewable share, pushing prices to zero and enabling 3.9 GW net export at night.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 57%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 11%
80%
Renewable share
34.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
49.7 GW
Total generation
+4.0 GW
Net export
—
Day-ahead price
9.7°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
144
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 28.2 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and aerodynamic nacelles stretching across rolling central German hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 6.0 GW appears in the distant background right as a cluster of larger turbines rising from a dark sea horizon barely visible through haze; brown coal 5.2 GW occupies the left foreground as a lignite power station with two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; biomass 4.4 GW sits as a mid-sized wood-chip combustion plant with a squat smokestack and fuel-storage silos just left of centre, warmly lit; natural gas 3.4 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, positioned between the coal plant and the turbines; hard coal 1.6 GW is a smaller conventional plant with a single cooling tower near the far left edge; hydro 0.9 GW is suggested by a small dam structure with spillway in the lower-left valley. The time is 22:00 in October — completely dark sky, deep navy-black, 100% cloud cover so no moon or stars visible, only artificial light sources: sodium streetlamps casting amber pools along access roads, illuminated control buildings with glowing windows, red aviation warning lights blinking atop wind turbine nacelles and cooling tower rims. Autumn vegetation: bare-branching deciduous trees and dry brown grass visible in the foreground lamplight. Temperature is cool, around 10°C — a faint mist clings to the valley floor. The atmosphere is calm and open despite the overcast, reflecting the zero electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich — rich, deep colour palette of indigo, amber, charcoal and pearl-white; visible confident brushwork; strong atmospheric depth with layers of foreground industry, midground turbine fields, and a vanishing dark horizon; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and industrial structure; dramatic chiaroscuro from artificial lighting against the vast dark sky. No text, no labels.