Grid Poet — 6 July 2026, 02:00
Wind leads at 13.3 GW but 11.4 GW net imports are needed as thermal plants and biomass support overnight demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 on a mid-summer night, German consumption sits at 41.1 GW against 29.7 GW of domestic generation, resulting in approximately 11.4 GW of net imports. Wind generation contributes a combined 13.3 GW (onshore 10.6 GW, offshore 2.7 GW), forming the backbone of overnight supply alongside 6.1 GW of brown coal and 3.9 GW of biomass baseload. The day-ahead price of 119.8 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, reflecting the substantial import requirement and the dispatch of higher-cost thermal units including 2.7 GW of natural gas and 2.4 GW of hard coal. Despite the thermal commitment, the renewable share holds at 62.5%, a creditable figure for a zero-solar hour with moderate but not exceptional wind conditions.
Grid poem Claude AI
Brown coal towers breathe their ancient breath into the starless summer dark, while wind turbines turn like restless sentinels guarding a grid that hungers still for more. Across invisible borders, power flows inward like a tide summoned by price, filling the gap between what the land can give and what the night demands.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 21%
62%
Renewable share
13.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
29.7 GW
Total generation
11.4 GW
Net import
119.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.0°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
75.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
273
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 10.6 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling dark hills, rotors slowly turning; brown coal 6.1 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-ground collection of blocky biomass power plants with squat chimneys and warm-lit conveyor belts feeding wood chip hoppers; wind offshore 2.7 GW is visible in the far background as a line of turbines standing in a barely visible dark sea on the horizon; natural gas 2.7 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat haze; hard coal 2.4 GW appears as a coal-fired plant with a single large smokestack beside a dark coal stockpile; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam structure nestled in a valley at far right. The sky is completely dark — deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow — a mid-summer night at 02:00 in central Germany. Stars are mostly obscured by 75 percent cloud cover rendered as heavy grey-charcoal masses drifting across a near-black firmament. Temperature is a mild 16°C with lush green summer vegetation barely visible in the darkness. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — humid summer air hangs thick around the cooling towers, steam catching the amber glow of industrial lighting. Trees along field edges show full summer foliage rustling in moderate wind. The overall mood is brooding industrial nocturne. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between artificial light and surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth with layers of industrial haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower contour, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 6 July 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-06T00:20 UTC · Download image