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Grid Poet — 24 June 2026, 21:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as negligible wind and absent solar drive massive imports and extreme prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Domestic generation of 29.8 GW covers only about half of the 55.7 GW consumption, requiring approximately 25.9 GW of net imports. The extreme price of 660.2 EUR/MWh reflects a tight supply picture across interconnected markets: late-evening summer demand remains elevated at 28.6 °C while renewables contribute only 28.8%, with solar effectively absent and wind output at just 2.4 GW combined. Brown coal at 8.5 GW and natural gas at 8.6 GW are the dominant domestic sources, supplemented by 4.1 GW each from hard coal and biomass, indicating that all available thermal capacity is likely dispatched. The near-zero wind speed and clear post-sunset sky leave little prospect of renewable recovery before overnight demand begins to taper.
Grid poem Claude AI
The furnaces roar beneath a starless summer vault, burning coal and gas to fill the void the wind and sun have left. A continent leans westward into Germany's open mouth, feeding its hunger at a price that scorches the ledger.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 1%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 29%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 28%
29%
Renewable share
2.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.3 GW
Solar
29.8 GW
Total generation
-25.9 GW
Net import
660.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
28.6°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 40.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
479
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#2 The Spike
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Brown coal 8.5 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a dense cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into a dark night sky, illuminated from below by orange sodium lights; natural gas 8.6 GW fills the center-left as several compact CCGT plant blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting heat shimmer, lit by harsh industrial floodlights; hard coal 4.1 GW appears center-right as a coal-fired station with a tall rectangular boiler house and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel, glowing under amber security lights; biomass 4.1 GW sits to the right as a medium-scale biomass plant with cylindrical wood-chip silos and a modest smokestack with faint grayish plume; wind onshore 2.0 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the still air, red aviation warning lights blinking; hydro 1.8 GW is represented by a dam with spillway visible at the far right edge, water glistening faintly under moonless sky; wind offshore 0.4 GW suggested by a few tiny turbine silhouettes on the far horizon. The sky is completely black — no twilight, no glow — a hot midsummer night at 21:00 in Berlin, stars faintly visible but the atmosphere feels heavy, humid, and oppressive, conveying the extreme 660 EUR/MWh electricity price. The air above the cooling towers shimmers with trapped heat at 28.6 °C. Lush green deciduous trees in full summer foliage line the foreground, leaves motionless in the near-calm wind. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between industrial fire-glow and the surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth with haze from cooling tower steam, technically accurate engineering details on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 24 June 2026, 21:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-24T19:20 UTC · Download image