Grid Poet — 6 July 2026, 20:00
Strong onshore wind leads generation but 9.4 GW net imports needed as evening demand peaks under overcast skies.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 20:00 on a summer evening, wind generation dominates the mix at 29.3 GW combined (onshore 24.2 GW, offshore 5.1 GW), while solar has effectively exited at 2.0 GW under heavy overcast. Thermal baseload remains substantial, with brown coal contributing 5.5 GW, natural gas 4.7 GW, and biomass 4.2 GW, collectively filling the residual load gap. Domestic generation of 48.3 GW falls short of 57.7 GW consumption, requiring approximately 9.4 GW of net imports. The day-ahead price of 138.3 EUR/MWh reflects the import dependency and thermal dispatch costs during this evening demand period, consistent with tight supply conditions rather than any exceptional event.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand turbines churn beneath a leaden summer dusk, their blades swallowing the last grey light while coal fires smolder deep in the earth to feed the nation's hungry evening hours. Across the borders, rivers of electrons flow inward like tributaries answering the call of a darkening land.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 50%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 4%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 11%
76%
Renewable share
29.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.0 GW
Solar
48.3 GW
Total generation
9.4 GW
Net import
138.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.2°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
96.0% / 36.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
159
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 24.2 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills into the distance, rotors turning steadily; brown coal 5.5 GW occupies the far left as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes against the dark sky; natural gas 4.7 GW appears as two compact CCGT power blocks with slender exhaust stacks and heat-shimmer, positioned left-centre; wind offshore 5.1 GW is visible on the distant horizon as a line of turbines emerging from a dark sea; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial plant with a timber-pile yard and a single broad smokestack, centre-left; solar 2.0 GW appears as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, their surfaces dark and unreflective under thick clouds; hydro 1.4 GW is a modest dam structure with white water cascading, tucked into a valley at centre-right; hard coal 1.2 GW is a single smaller conventional power station with a brick chimney behind the gas plant. The sky is completely dark — a deep navy-to-black summer night sky at 20:00 in July, no twilight glow, no sunset colours remaining; the atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, and humid under 96% cloud cover at 23°C. All structures are lit by warm sodium-orange industrial lighting, glowing windows, and red aviation warning lights atop turbine nacelles and smokestacks. The landscape is lush midsummer — deep green deciduous trees in full leaf, tall grasses. Transmission pylons with high-voltage lines cross the middle distance, symbolising interconnection. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric chiaroscuro depth, dramatic contrast between the warm industrial glow and the oppressive dark overcast sky — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for each technology. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 6 July 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-06T18:20 UTC · Download image