Grid Poet — 2 July 2026, 00:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate midnight generation as large net imports cover a wide supply gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midnight on July 2nd, the German grid draws 46.1 GW against only 27.8 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 18.3 GW of net imports. Brown coal anchors baseload at 9.0 GW, supplemented by natural gas at 5.6 GW, hard coal at 4.0 GW, and biomass at 4.0 GW. Renewables contribute 33.3% of domestic generation, led by wind onshore at 2.8 GW under light winds and hydro at 2.1 GW, while solar is naturally absent. The day-ahead price of 160.2 EUR/MWh is notably elevated for a summer nighttime hour, reflecting the scale of import dependence and the cost of dispatching thermal capacity across the merit order.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a moonless vault the furnaces breathe deep, their cooling towers exhaling pale ghosts into the starless dark, while distant turbines turn like slow-winged herons hunting the faintest wind. The grid stretches its copper sinews across sleeping borders, drinking power from foreign rivers to feed its restless, dreaming cities.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 2%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 7%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 32%
33%
Renewable share
3.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.8 GW
Total generation
18.3 GW
Net import
160.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.5°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
2.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
471
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers rising against a black night sky, thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; natural gas 5.6 GW fills the center-left as two compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour, their metallic housings gleaming under harsh artificial lighting; hard coal 4.0 GW appears center-right as a gritty coal-fired plant with wide rectangular boiler buildings, conveyor belts frozen mid-motion, red aviation warning lights on the stack tops; biomass 4.0 GW sits to the right as a medium-sized industrial facility with a domed digester and a modest smokestack, warmly lit windows glowing amber; wind onshore 2.8 GW occupies the far right as a small group of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors turning very slowly in barely perceptible wind, red blinking nacelle lights against the darkness; hydro 2.1 GW appears in the foreground as a concrete dam with water spilling through illuminated sluice gates, white froth catching floodlight; wind offshore 0.5 GW is a faint silhouette of a single offshore turbine glimpsed on a distant dark horizon. The sky is completely black with no twilight, no moon, only scattered stars visible through perfectly clear skies (2% cloud cover). The atmosphere is heavy, oppressive, and industrial, reflecting the high electricity price — a thick humid summer haze clings to the ground, smearing the sodium lights into amber halos. Lush midsummer vegetation — dark leafy trees and tall grass — frames the foreground, appropriate for 17.5°C July warmth but visible only where light spills from the plants. High-voltage transmission lines with lattice pylons cross the scene, symbolizing the import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, deep atmospheric perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every cooling tower profile, turbine nacelle, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 2 July 2026, 00:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-01T22:20 UTC · Download image