Grid Poet — 2 July 2026, 21:00
Strong onshore wind leads generation at 29.5 GW, but 5.1 GW net imports are needed to meet evening demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 21:00 on a summer evening, wind generation dominates at 35.3 GW combined (onshore 29.5 GW, offshore 5.8 GW), delivering the bulk of a strong 82.4% renewable share. Solar has effectively ceased at 0.2 GW following sunset, while biomass (3.9 GW) and hydro (1.9 GW) provide steady baseload contributions. Thermal dispatch remains moderate with brown coal at 3.5 GW, natural gas at 3.0 GW, and hard coal at 2.4 GW, collectively filling the residual load gap. Domestic generation totals 50.1 GW against 55.2 GW consumption, requiring approximately 5.1 GW of net imports; the day-ahead price of 117.9 EUR/MWh reflects this import dependency and the cost of dispatching remaining thermal units during an evening demand period.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand turbines carve the summer night, their blades drinking deep from Atlantic gusts that roll across darkened plains. Yet the grid still hungers beyond what the wind can give, and coal furnaces glow like ember-eyed sentinels in the black.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 59%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 0%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 7%
82%
Renewable share
35.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.2 GW
Solar
50.1 GW
Total generation
5.1 GW
Net import
117.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.2°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
82.0% / 5.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
122
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 29.5 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers stretching across rolling central German hills from centre to far right, their red aviation lights blinking in the darkness; wind offshore 5.8 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon, nacelle lights reflecting faintly; brown coal 3.5 GW occupies the left foreground as a lignite power station with two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; biomass 3.9 GW sits left of centre as a mid-sized plant with a cylindrical silo and a single smokestack with a warm amber glow; natural gas 3.0 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with a tall single exhaust stack and clean metallic structure illuminated by white industrial floodlights; hard coal 2.4 GW is rendered as a smaller coal-fired station behind the gas plant, with a rectangular boiler house and conveyor belt, glowing reddish from within; hydro 1.9 GW is suggested by a small dam structure in the middle distance with water catching faint reflected light. The sky is fully dark — deep navy-black, no twilight, no sunset glow, no visible horizon line of light — a proper 21:00 July night in Germany. An 82% overcast layer of clouds is faintly visible where industrial light catches their undersides, giving them a heavy oppressive amber-grey tone reflecting the 117.9 EUR/MWh price tension. Summer foliage on the hills is lush but rendered only in dark silhouette. The atmosphere is warm and humid at 19°C, with a moderate breeze animating the turbine blades and drifting steam plumes leftward. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the industrial sodium light and the enveloping darkness, atmospheric depth with layers of turbines receding into haze, meticulous engineering detail on every nacelle, cooling tower, and stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 2 July 2026, 21:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-02T19:20 UTC · Download image