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Grid Poet — 25 June 2026, 22:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate dispatchable supply as nighttime import demand reaches 13 GW under high prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 22:00 on a warm summer evening, Germany draws 51.2 GW against 38.2 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 13.0 GW of net imports. Solar contribution is zero as expected at this hour, leaving wind (11.8 GW combined onshore and offshore) as the primary renewable source alongside 4.0 GW biomass and 1.7 GW hydro, yielding a 45.7% renewable share. Thermal baseload is substantial, with brown coal at 9.4 GW and hard coal at 4.1 GW joined by 7.2 GW of natural gas — collectively providing the bulk of dispatchable output. The day-ahead price of 186.6 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance, elevated import dependency, and sustained thermal dispatch during a period of high evening demand likely driven in part by cooling loads persisting from a 27°C day.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless vault the furnaces exhale, their breath of ash and steam a tithe the windmills cannot pay. The grid stretches taut as a wire humming with borrowed current, while coal-fired embers paint the dark horizon amber.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 0%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 25%
46%
Renewable share
11.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
38.2 GW
Total generation
-13.1 GW
Net import
186.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.0°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
375
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.4 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into a pitch-black summer night sky, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; natural gas 7.2 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, their steel structures illuminated by harsh white facility lighting; hard coal 4.1 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal plant with conveyor belts and a single squat smokestack glowing dull red at the tip; wind onshore 10.0 GW spans the right third as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the black sky, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 1.8 GW is suggested by a distant cluster of turbine lights on the far-right horizon over a dark sea; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip facility with a conical fuel silo and modest chimney near the coal plant, warmly lit from within; hydro 1.7 GW is rendered as a concrete dam structure in the middle distance, water glistening under floodlights. The sky is completely dark — deep navy-black, no twilight glow, no moon visible — with a heavy, oppressive atmosphere conveying high electricity prices; a faint warm haze hangs in the still 27°C air over lush midsummer vegetation — broad-leafed trees in full canopy barely visible at the edges. Stars are few, dimmed by industrial light pollution and humid haze. Foreground shows a grassy meadow with wildflowers wilting slightly in summer heat. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark colour palette of amber, charcoal, deep navy, and burnt sienna — with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric chiaroscuro depth, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 25 June 2026, 22:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-25T20:20 UTC · Download image