Grid Poet — 6 July 2026, 03:00
Wind leads at 13.8 GW but ~11.3 GW net imports are needed as zero solar and high thermal output cannot meet 40.9 GW demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 03:00 on a summer night, German consumption sits at 40.9 GW against 29.6 GW domestic generation, resulting in approximately 11.3 GW of net imports. Wind provides the largest single contribution at 13.8 GW combined (onshore 10.5 GW, offshore 3.3 GW), while brown coal runs at 6.1 GW and hard coal at 2.4 GW, together supplying 8.5 GW of baseload thermal generation. The day-ahead price of 115.5 EUR/MWh is notably elevated for a nighttime hour, reflecting the substantial import requirement under moderate but insufficient wind output and zero solar. Biomass at 3.9 GW and natural gas at 2.2 GW round out the dispatchable fleet, all called upon to narrow the gap that imports must fill.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless ceiling of cloud, turbines carve the humid dark while coal furnaces glow like ancient hearths refusing sleep. The grid reaches beyond its borders, drawing current through cables stretched taut across the summer night.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 21%
64%
Renewable share
13.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
29.6 GW
Total generation
11.4 GW
Net import
115.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.7°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
95.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
266
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.1 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into blackness, their bases lit by orange sodium lamps illuminating coal conveyors and boiler houses. Hard coal 2.4 GW appears as a smaller coal plant just right of centre-left, a single large smokestack with faint red aviation lights and a modest cooling tower, floodlit yards of black coal heaps. Natural gas 2.2 GW sits centre as a compact CCGT facility with a tall slender exhaust stack venting heat shimmer, its turbine hall glowing with interior fluorescent light spilling through high windows. Biomass 3.9 GW appears centre-right as a cluster of industrial biomass CHP plants with rounded storage silos and shorter stacks emitting thin pale exhaust, warmly lit by amber security lighting. Wind onshore 10.5 GW spans the right third and extends into the background as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, their nacelle lights blinking red in the darkness, blades slowly turning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 3.3 GW is suggested in the far-right background as a line of larger turbines on the dark horizon with red beacon lights reflected faintly on a barely visible sea surface. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam and powerhouse visible at far left, water catching faint reflected industrial light. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, 95% overcast with no stars visible, no twilight, no sky glow — a true 3 AM summer darkness. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: low dense clouds press down, humidity visible as faint halos around every artificial light source. Temperature is mild at 15.7°C so summer vegetation — full leafy deciduous trees and tall grass — is lush but rendered only as dark silhouettes. The foreground shows a wet rural road with puddles reflecting sodium-orange industrial glow. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between artificial light and profound darkness, atmospheric depth receding into haze, technically precise engineering details on every facility, the mood of Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial reality.
Grid data: 6 July 2026, 03:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-06T01:20 UTC · Download image