Grid Poet — 5 July 2026, 00:00
Strong overnight wind supplies most generation, but 8.7 GW net imports are needed to meet 43.3 GW demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midnight on a warm summer night, wind generation is the dominant source at 21.3 GW combined (onshore 15.9 GW, offshore 5.4 GW), accounting for the bulk of the 77.1% renewable share. Biomass contributes a steady 4.0 GW baseload, while thermal plants provide the balance: brown coal at 3.3 GW, natural gas at 3.7 GW, and hard coal at 1.0 GW. Domestic generation totals 34.6 GW against 43.3 GW consumption, requiring approximately 8.7 GW of net imports. The day-ahead price of 122.9 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, consistent with the significant import requirement and thermal dispatch needed to cover the residual load despite strong wind output.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades carve the summer darkness, tireless sentinels humming against the warm July night. Yet the grid still hungers beyond their reach, and coal fires glow beneath a starless sky to answer.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 46%
Wind offshore 16%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
77%
Renewable share
21.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
34.6 GW
Total generation
8.7 GW
Net import
122.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.7°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
59.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
151
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.9 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills into the distance, rotors visibly spinning; wind offshore 5.4 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark river or estuary; brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with pale steam plumes rising into the night sky, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting; natural gas 3.7 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip conveyor and modest chimney with a faint warm glow, positioned between the gas plant and the wind turbines; hard coal 1.0 GW is a smaller stack and bunker structure beside the brown coal towers; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small illuminated dam spillway in the middle distance. The scene is set at midnight in July — the sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight glow whatsoever, stars mostly obscured by 59% cloud cover rendered as heavy mid-level clouds. The warm 18.7°C summer night shows lush green vegetation faintly visible under artificial light — full-leafed deciduous trees, tall grass. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: humid summer haze hangs in the air, sodium streetlights cast amber pools along a road in the foreground, and the cooling tower steam catches the orange industrial glow. Wind at 14.1 km/h animates the turbine blades and bends the grass slightly. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich — rich, deep colour palette of indigo, amber, slate grey, and warm ochre; visible impasto brushwork; dramatic chiaroscuro between the dark landscape and the industrial light sources; atmospheric depth with haze layers receding toward the horizon; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 5 July 2026, 00:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-04T22:20 UTC · Download image