Strong overnight wind drives 81% renewables with 9 GW net export despite elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 59%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 10%
81%
Renewable share
34.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
49.1 GW
Total generation
+9.0 GW
Net export
100.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.7°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
94.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
133
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 28.8 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with lattice towers stretching across rolling central German hills from the centre to the far right, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the darkness; wind offshore 6.0 GW appears as a distant row of larger turbines on the far horizon above a faintly visible North Sea coastline; brown coal 5.1 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a rectangular stack and wood-chip storage bunkers illuminated by floodlights; natural gas 3.2 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a clean blue-white flame visible through a turbine hall window, positioned between the coal plant and the wind turbines; hard coal 1.1 GW is a smaller single cooling tower with a thin plume near the coal complex; hydro 0.9 GW is suggested by a modest dam structure at the lower right edge with a trickle of white water catching artificial light. The sky is completely black — deep navy at best — it is 2 AM with 94% cloud cover, so no stars, no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever, only the oppressive weight of low unseen clouds faintly reflecting the orange industrial light from below. The atmosphere feels heavy and pressurized, conveying the high electricity price — thick humid air, dense clouds pressing low. Temperature is 8.7°C: autumn vegetation, bare-branching trees, damp brown grass. Wind at 18 km/h animates the turbine blades into visible rotation blur and bends the steam plumes sideways. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette of deep indigo, burnt orange, and slate grey, visible expressive brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth with industrial haze — but with meticulous technical accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, CCGT exhaust detail, and power-line insulator. No text, no labels.