Grid Poet — 6 July 2026, 23:00
Strong nighttime wind dominates but tight margins and gas-plus-coal dispatch drive prices to 135 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 23:00 on a warm July night, German generation totals 43.3 GW against 49.4 GW consumption, requiring approximately 6.1 GW of net imports. Wind remains the dominant source at 24.3 GW combined (onshore 19.5 GW, offshore 4.8 GW), sustaining a 69.1% renewable share despite zero solar output. Brown coal contributes a notable 6.6 GW baseload tranche, with natural gas at 5.2 GW providing mid-merit support; both thermal blocks reflect the need to cover residual load alongside firm imports. The day-ahead price of 135 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, consistent with tightened domestic supply margins and the cost of marginal gas-fired and imported generation.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless canopy of cloud, the wind turbines hum their restless hymn while coal towers exhale pale ghosts into the humid dark. The grid reaches across borders with outstretched copper arms, drawing foreign current to feed a nation that never sleeps.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 45%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 15%
69%
Renewable share
24.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
43.3 GW
Total generation
6.0 GW
Net import
135.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.7°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
92.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
211
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 19.5 GW dominates the right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking; wind offshore 4.8 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly glimmering sea. Brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lamps. Natural gas 5.2 GW sits left-of-centre as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin transparent heat haze, their turbine halls glowing warmly through large windows. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip-fired plant with a squat smokestack and conveyor belts, illuminated by floodlights. Hard coal 1.6 GW is a smaller coal plant with a single square cooling tower to the far left, partially in shadow. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small dam structure in a valley at centre-left, water faintly catching reflected light. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, 92% cloud cover blocking all stars, no twilight glow whatsoever — a true 11 PM summer night. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: low humid clouds press down on the industrial landscape, faintly catching the orange sodium glow from below. Temperature is a warm 18.7°C; vegetation is lush midsummer green barely visible in the darkness, with broad-leafed trees in full canopy. Light wind at ground level gently sways grasses. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of indigo, umber, and warm orange; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with layers of haze between foreground industry and distant turbines. Engineering details are meticulous: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, aluminium catwalks on cooling towers, riveted steel stacks. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 6 July 2026, 23:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-06T21:21 UTC · Download image