Grid Poet — 6 July 2026, 21:00
Strong wind dominates but 8.4 GW net imports fill the evening gap as solar fades and thermal plants ramp.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 21:00 on a July evening, solar output has effectively ceased at 0.2 GW while wind remains the dominant source at 27.8 GW combined onshore and offshore, providing roughly 59% of total generation. Brown coal at 6.9 GW and natural gas at 5.3 GW constitute the bulk of the thermal dispatch, supplemented by biomass at 4.3 GW, hard coal at 1.2 GW, and hydro at 1.4 GW. Domestic generation of 47.0 GW falls short of consumption at 55.4 GW, implying net imports of approximately 8.4 GW. The day-ahead price of 151.2 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance during the evening demand plateau, with thermal units running at elevated marginal costs to complement the strong but insufficient wind fleet.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines hum their ceaseless hymn across a darkened land, while ancient coal fires smolder deep to meet what wind alone cannot command. Eight gigawatts flow in from foreign shores, a tide of borrowed light beneath the summer stars.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 48%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 15%
72%
Renewable share
27.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.2 GW
Solar
47.0 GW
Total generation
8.4 GW
Net import
151.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.9°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
68.0% / 10.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
195
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 22.6 GW dominates the scene as vast rows of three-blade turbines with lattice towers stretching across rolling hills from the centre to the right side of the composition, their blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 5.2 GW appears as distant turbines on a dark horizon line at far right; brown coal 6.9 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 5.3 GW sits left of centre as compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip conveyor and modest chimney stack near the centre-left; hard coal 1.2 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a single squat cooling tower behind the gas plant; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a concrete dam wall and spillway in the far left background against a wooded hillside. TIME: 21:00 in July — the sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight glow remaining, stars faintly visible through 68% broken cloud cover. All structures are illuminated only by artificial light: sodium-orange streetlamps casting pools of warm light on roads, white industrial floodlights on the power plants, red aircraft warning lights blinking atop turbine nacelles and chimney stacks. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a humid summer night with low haze clinging to the ground, moisture visible in the cooling tower plumes. Vegetation is lush midsummer green visible only where lit, with mature deciduous trees in full leaf along field edges. The overall composition is a wide panoramic landscape rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial installations and the surrounding darkness. Meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic concrete surface, every CCGT exhaust stack. The painting conveys the industrial sublime: humanity's restless energy infrastructure humming through a warm July night. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 6 July 2026, 21:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-06T19:20 UTC · Download image