Grid Poet — 9 July 2026, 22:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate a night of low wind and heavy imports at 184 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 22:00 on a warm July evening, domestic generation totals 31.3 GW against 50.5 GW consumption, requiring approximately 19.2 GW of net imports. With solar offline and onshore wind producing only 6.2 GW in near-calm conditions (1.8 km/h), thermal generation is carrying the bulk of domestic supply: brown coal leads at 8.6 GW, followed by natural gas at 6.0 GW and hard coal at 3.9 GW. The day-ahead price of 184 EUR/MWh reflects the tight domestic supply position and heavy reliance on imports and marginal thermal units. Biomass at 4.3 GW and hydro at 1.3 GW provide steady baseload renewable contributions, bringing the overall renewable share to 40.8%.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun has sunk and the turbines barely whisper, while ancient coal fires burn deep beneath a starless summer sky. Europe sends its current westward through the dark, feeding a nation whose own furnaces cannot fill the void alone.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 0%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 27%
41%
Renewable share
7.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
31.3 GW
Total generation
19.2 GW
Net import
184.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.8°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
413
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 6.0 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting heat shimmer; wind onshore 6.2 GW appears across the centre-right as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors barely turning in the still air; hard coal 3.9 GW occupies the right as a traditional coal plant with rectangular cooling towers and conveyor belts illuminated by floodlights; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered in the mid-ground as a cluster of cylindrical wood-chip silos and a modest boiler building with a single chimney trailing faint smoke; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway in the far right background; offshore wind 0.9 GW is suggested by distant tiny turbine silhouettes on the far horizon. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow, scattered stars visible between wisps of steam; a clear summer night at 18.8°C with lush green deciduous trees and tall grass in the foreground barely visible in the artificial light. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, reflecting the very high electricity price. Warm sodium-orange and cool mercury-white industrial lighting casts long shadows across the terrain. Transmission line pylons recede into the darkness carrying imported power. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and smokestack detail. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 9 July 2026, 22:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-09T20:20 UTC · Download image