Grid Poet — 8 July 2026, 22:00
Wind leads at 16.6 GW but 12.3 GW net imports needed as evening demand outstrips domestic supply.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 22:00 on a summer evening, solar generation is absent and wind provides the dominant renewable contribution at 16.6 GW combined onshore and offshore. Thermal generation is substantial: brown coal at 8.4 GW, natural gas at 5.2 GW, and hard coal at 3.3 GW are all dispatched to cover residual load. Total domestic generation of 39.2 GW falls 12.3 GW short of the 51.5 GW consumption level, indicating net imports of approximately 12.3 GW from neighboring systems. The day-ahead price of 159.2 EUR/MWh reflects this tight supply-demand balance and elevated thermal dispatch despite a respectable 56.8% renewable share.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines turn beneath a moonless vault while furnaces roar coal-breath into the humid dark, feeding a nation that will not sleep. Across unseen borders, borrowed electrons stream like silent rivers toward ten million glowing windows.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 0%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 21%
57%
Renewable share
16.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
39.2 GW
Total generation
12.3 GW
Net import
159.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.4°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
43.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
305
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 13.8 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills into the distance; brown coal 8.4 GW occupies the far left as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting; natural gas 5.2 GW appears in the left-centre as a compact CCGT facility with twin tall exhaust stacks and a single smaller cooling tower, lit by harsh floodlights; hard coal 3.3 GW sits behind the gas plant as a darker block-shaped station with a single large chimney trailing grey smoke; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered centre-right as a mid-sized industrial plant with wood-chip conveyors and a modest stack, warmly lit; wind offshore 2.8 GW is suggested by a distant line of turbines on the far-right horizon; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small dam structure with spillway in the right foreground. Time is 22:00 in summer — the sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight glow, no sunset remnants, a few stars barely visible through 43% cloud cover rendered as grey patches against the dark sky. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, and slightly oppressive reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is a mild 18°C summer night — lush green deciduous trees are faintly visible in artificial light, grass is thick. A moderate breeze of 12 km/h animates the turbine blades and causes gentle movement in tree canopies. Sodium streetlights along a road in the mid-ground cast amber pools. The foreground shows a field with wildflowers dimly illuminated. Power transmission lines with lattice pylons cross the composition diagonally, connecting the thermal plants on the left to the wind-dominated landscape on the right. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, with rich dark colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro from industrial lighting against the black sky, atmospheric depth with haze around the cooling towers, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 8 July 2026, 22:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-08T20:20 UTC · Download image