Grid Poet — 3 July 2026, 21:00
Strong wind generation leads but cannot cover 53 GW demand; thermal plants and net imports of 9.5 GW fill the gap at nightfall.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 21:00 on a summer evening, solar output has effectively ceased at 0.3 GW while wind generation remains robust at 26.3 GW combined, providing the bulk of the 74.4% renewable share. Domestic generation totals 43.5 GW against 53.0 GW consumption, requiring approximately 9.5 GW of net imports. Dispatchable thermal plants are running at moderate levels — brown coal at 4.7 GW, natural gas at 3.4 GW, and hard coal at 3.1 GW — reflecting a typical evening ramp as solar fades and wind alone cannot close the gap. The day-ahead price of 130 EUR/MWh is elevated, consistent with the import dependency and the marginal cost of gas-fired generation setting the price during the evening demand plateau.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines turn their pale arms through the darkening German night, sentinels of wind still singing while the sun has lost its fight. Below them, ancient coal fires glow like embers of a fading age, their smoke ascending toward the stars on summer's quiet stage.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 51%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 1%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 11%
74%
Renewable share
26.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.3 GW
Solar
43.5 GW
Total generation
9.5 GW
Net import
130.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.9°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 40.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
180
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 22.0 GW dominates the scene, depicted as vast ranks of tall three-blade turbines stretching across rolling green hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors slowly turning in moderate breeze. Wind offshore 4.3 GW appears in the distant background as a faint line of turbines on the dark horizon over a barely-visible sea. Brown coal 4.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the night sky, their concrete forms lit from below by orange sodium lights. Biomass 4.2 GW sits just right of the brown coal plant as a medium-scale industrial facility with a tall rectangular stack and a woodchip storage dome, warmly lit by industrial floodlights. Natural gas 3.4 GW appears as a compact CCGT power station with two sleek exhaust stacks and a visible heat-recovery unit, positioned centre-left, its stainless-steel surfaces catching artificial light. Hard coal 3.1 GW is rendered as a dark angular power station with conveyor belts and a large smokestack, positioned behind the gas plant, coal piles dimly visible. Hydro 1.6 GW appears as a small dam and penstock structure nestled in a valley in the middle distance, water glinting faintly under facility lighting. Solar 0.3 GW is represented only by a small darkened field of crystalline PV panels in the right foreground, entirely unlit, reflecting nothing — no sunshine whatsoever. The sky is completely dark, a deep navy-black summer night with scattered stars visible through clear skies — zero cloud cover. A warm 18.9°C July evening; lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf frame the edges, their foliage barely discernible in the darkness. The overall atmosphere is heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, reflecting the high 130 EUR/MWh electricity price — a subtle haze near the industrial facilities, sodium-orange light pools creating dramatic chiaroscuro against the black sky. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, and atmospheric depth — reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial realism. Meticulous engineering detail on all turbine nacelles, lattice towers, cooling tower geometry, and CCGT exhaust structures. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 3 July 2026, 21:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-03T19:20 UTC · Download image