Grid Poet — 5 July 2026, 02:00
Strong overnight wind generation covers most demand, but 4 GW net imports fill the gap at elevated prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 CEST, wind generation dominates the supply stack at 24.0 GW combined (18.7 onshore, 5.3 offshore), accounting for the bulk of the 80.2% renewable share. Brown coal provides 3.3 GW of baseload alongside 3.8 GW of biomass, 3.1 GW of natural gas, and smaller contributions from hard coal (0.8 GW) and hydro (1.3 GW). Domestic generation falls 4.1 GW short of the 40.3 GW consumption level, indicating net imports of approximately 4.1 GW, which is consistent with typical overnight demand patterns during windy summer conditions. The day-ahead price of 110.5 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour despite strong wind output, likely reflecting tight interconnector capacity or high gas-driven marginal costs across the broader European market.
Grid poem Claude AI
The blades churn through a starless vault, tireless sentinels carving power from the unseen wind. Below, coal furnaces glow like ancient hearts refusing sleep, feeding a nation's quiet hunger in the dark.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 52%
Wind offshore 15%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
80%
Renewable share
23.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.2 GW
Total generation
4.0 GW
Net import
110.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.1°C / 5 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
132
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 18.7 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling central German hills, occupying over half the canvas from centre to right; wind offshore 5.3 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly suggested dark sea; brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with pale steam plumes rising into the black sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; biomass 3.8 GW sits just right of the cooling towers as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall exhaust stack and a glowing wood-chip conveyor, warmly lit; natural gas 3.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and low-slung turbine hall, situated in the left-middle ground, its metallic surfaces catching artificial light; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam structure nestled in a valley in the distant centre-left, with white water visible at its base; hard coal 0.8 GW is a single modest smokestack facility barely visible in the far left background. The sky is completely black with no twilight, no moon, full 100% cloud cover obscuring any stars — a heavy, oppressive overcast pressing down on the scene, conveying the elevated electricity price. The landscape is lush summer green, visible only where sodium streetlights and industrial floodlights cast pools of warm orange and white light. Turbine nacelles sport red aviation warning lights blinking in the darkness. The atmosphere is humid and warm at 18°C, with a faint ground mist clinging to the meadows between the turbine rows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between deep shadows and warm artificial light, atmospheric depth receding into hazy darkness, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and industrial structure. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 5 July 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-05T00:20 UTC · Download image