Grid Poet — 4 July 2026, 22:00
Strong wind leads generation at 21 GW, but 10.8 GW net imports are needed to meet 45.6 GW nighttime demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 22:00 on a warm summer night, German consumption sits at 45.6 GW while domestic generation delivers 34.8 GW, requiring approximately 10.8 GW of net imports. Wind generation is strong at a combined 21.1 GW onshore and offshore, and together with 4.3 GW biomass and 1.4 GW hydro drives the renewable share to 77.3%. Thermal dispatch remains moderate with 3.3 GW brown coal, 3.6 GW natural gas, and 1.0 GW hard coal providing baseload and flexibility support. The day-ahead price of 128 EUR/MWh is elevated, reflecting the import requirement and the gap between available domestic supply and late-evening demand that has not yet fully receded from the summer day.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines churn beneath a starless vault, their pale arms reaching into the humid dark where coal still smolders at the empire's root. The grid drinks deeply from across the borders, paying dearly for each foreign megawatt that crosses through the night.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 16%
Solar 0%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
77%
Renewable share
21.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
34.8 GW
Total generation
10.8 GW
Net import
128.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.2°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
150
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.4 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles, rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind, arrayed across rolling green summer hills; wind offshore 5.7 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon over a dark body of water; brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting; natural gas 3.6 GW sits left of centre as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer, lit by white floodlights; hard coal 1.0 GW appears as a smaller single-stack plant beside the brown coal station with a conveyor belt visible; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip power station with a rounded silo and short chimney in the centre-left middle ground, warm light glowing from its windows; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small dam structure with spillway gleaming faintly in the lower-left corner. The sky is completely dark, a deep navy-black with full 100% cloud cover — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow — only the sodium-orange and white artificial lights of the industrial facilities casting pools of warm illumination on the surrounding landscape. The atmosphere feels heavy, humid, and oppressive, with low clouds absorbing the upward glow of the power stations. Summer vegetation is lush and green where illuminated. High-voltage transmission pylons with sagging cables cross the mid-ground, symbolising the heavy import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between the black sky and glowing industrial fires, atmospheric depth with haze softening distant turbines, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine blade, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 4 July 2026, 22:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-04T20:20 UTC · Download image