Grid Poet — 5 July 2026, 01:00
Strong wind dominates overnight generation at 22.8 GW, but 6.2 GW net imports are needed to meet 41.6 GW demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 01:00 on a mild summer night, wind generation dominates the mix at 22.8 GW combined (onshore 17.4 GW, offshore 5.4 GW), providing roughly 64% of total generation. Biomass (3.8 GW), brown coal (3.3 GW), and natural gas (3.3 GW) supply firm baseload, with hard coal contributing a marginal 0.9 GW and hydro 1.4 GW. Domestic generation of 35.4 GW falls short of 41.6 GW consumption, requiring approximately 6.2 GW of net imports — a notable volume reflecting sustained overnight industrial and cooling demand despite the high renewable share of 78.9%. The day-ahead price of 115.9 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, likely driven by this import dependency and the thermal capacity still dispatched to cover the gap.
Grid poem Claude AI
A hundred turbines carve the blackened sky, their blades a whispered hymn to restless wind — yet still the grid calls out across the borders, hungry for the gigawatts the night alone cannot provide. Coal smolders in the lowlands like a stubborn ember, refusing sleep while cities dream in amber light.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 49%
Wind offshore 15%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
79%
Renewable share
22.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.4 GW
Total generation
6.2 GW
Net import
115.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.6°C / 15 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
141
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.4 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and visible nacelles, rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind, receding in rows across rolling green summer farmland into deep darkness; wind offshore 5.4 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon over a dark sea glimpsed between hills; brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting pale steam plumes lit from below by amber sodium lamps; natural gas 3.3 GW sits just right of the cooling towers as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack releasing a thin heat shimmer, illuminated by industrial floodlights; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded storage silo and short chimney with faint warm exhaust, positioned between the gas plant and the wind turbines; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam with spillway in the middle distance, water faintly reflecting facility lights; hard coal 0.9 GW is a smaller stack with a thin wisp of smoke near the brown coal towers. The sky is completely black to deep navy, no twilight, no sky glow — it is 1 AM in full summer darkness. Overcast ceiling of 100% cloud cover is subtly visible as a low, formless dark grey mass reflecting the faintest amber glow from the industrial facilities below. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price. Summer vegetation is lush — tall grass, leafy deciduous trees — rendered in dark greens barely visible under artificial light. Sodium streetlights cast orange pools along a road in the foreground. Distant town windows glow warmly. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of navy, umber, ochre, and burnt sienna; visible confident brushwork; deep atmospheric perspective; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 5 July 2026, 01:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-04T23:20 UTC · Download image