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Grid Poet — 26 June 2026, 22:00
Brown coal and wind lead generation while 15.7 GW net imports bridge a warm summer night's demand gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 22:00 on a late-June evening, solar generation is zero and onshore wind contributes a moderate 10.5 GW, with offshore wind adding 2.0 GW. Thermal generation is substantial: brown coal leads at 9.2 GW, followed by hard coal at 3.3 GW and natural gas at 3.2 GW, supplemented by 3.7 GW biomass and 2.1 GW hydro. Total domestic generation of 33.9 GW against consumption of 49.6 GW implies a net import of approximately 15.7 GW. The day-ahead price of 202.7 EUR/MWh reflects this tight supply-demand balance, with high residual load drawing heavily on thermal dispatch and cross-border flows during a warm summer night when cooling loads remain elevated.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless vault the furnaces breathe their ancient carbon hymn, while distant turbines turn like slow-winged ghosts above the darkened plain. The grid, starved of sun and short of wind, drinks deep from foreign wires and lignite flame.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 0%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 27%
54%
Renewable share
12.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
33.9 GW
Total generation
-15.7 GW
Net import
202.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
29.2°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
340
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.2 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the night sky; hard coal 3.3 GW appears just left of centre as a smaller coal plant with rectangular boiler houses and a single tall smokestack; natural gas 3.2 GW occupies the centre as a compact CCGT facility with a slender exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer; biomass 3.7 GW sits centre-right as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with conical fuel silos and a low flue; hydro 2.1 GW appears as a concrete dam in a river gorge at the right foreground; wind onshore 10.5 GW spans the entire right third and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers across rolling hills, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 2.0 GW is suggested by a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon line above a dark body of water. The time is 22:00 on a hot summer night: the sky is completely black with no twilight glow, scattered stars barely visible through a heavy, oppressive humid haze suggesting the high electricity price. Sodium-orange streetlights and industrial floodlights illuminate the power stations from below, casting warm pools of light against dark surroundings. Vegetation is lush midsummer green, visible only where artificial light catches it — deciduous trees in full canopy, tall grass. The air feels sultry at 29 °C; no clouds at all. The atmosphere is dense and brooding, weighty. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour with deep umber shadows, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the enveloping darkness, atmospheric depth with haze softening the distant wind turbines. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and three-blade rotors, aluminium cooling tower frameworks, CCGT exhaust geometry, dam spillways. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 26 June 2026, 22:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-26T20:20 UTC · Download image