Grid Poet — 1 June 2026, 21:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as wind and solar collapse, driving heavy imports and a 333 EUR/MWh price.
Back
← older newer →
Grid analysis Claude AI
Domestic generation of 27.2 GW covers only half of the 54.4 GW consumption, requiring approximately 27.2 GW of net imports. The renewable share stands at 27.2%, dominated by biomass at 4.2 GW and hydro at 1.9 GW, while wind and solar contribute minimally due to near-calm winds and full overcast at 21:00. Thermal plants are running hard — brown coal at 8.0 GW, natural gas at 7.9 GW, and hard coal at 3.8 GW — reflecting the evening demand peak with negligible variable renewable output. The day-ahead price of 333.4 EUR/MWh is consistent with these tight supply conditions and heavy reliance on imports and high-marginal-cost thermal dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sky yields nothing — no wind, no light — and the old furnaces roar awake, their breath staining the summer dark. Across the borders, borrowed current flows like a river of debt into the hungry night.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 0%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 7%
Natural gas 29%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 30%
27%
Renewable share
1.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.1 GW
Solar
27.2 GW
Total generation
27.2 GW
Net import
333.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.7°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
491
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium lights; natural gas 7.9 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer; hard coal 3.8 GW appears centre-right as a dark angular coal plant with conveyor belts and a single rectangular cooling tower; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized industrial buildings with wood-chip silos and low chimneys emitting thin pale smoke, placed right of centre; hydro 1.9 GW appears at the far right as a concrete dam with water spilling over a weir, faintly illuminated by floodlights; wind onshore 1.0 GW is shown as two lonely three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the still air, red aviation warning lights blinking; wind offshore 0.3 GW is a single turbine silhouette barely visible on a far dark horizon line. The sky is completely dark — a deep navy-black summer night at 21:00 with 100% cloud cover, no stars, no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the extreme electricity price: low haze clings to the ground, thick humid air rendered in muted ochres and greys around the industrial facilities. Warm June vegetation — full dark-green deciduous trees and tall grass — is visible only where sodium streetlights and facility floodlights cast amber pools. Overhead high-voltage transmission lines stretch across the scene toward the eastern horizon, symbolising the massive import flows. The entire composition is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth receding into industrial haze — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every cooling tower, turbine nacelle, lattice pylon, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 1 June 2026, 21:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-01T19:20 UTC · Download image