Grid Poet — 11 July 2026, 00:00
Brown coal, onshore wind, and gas anchor overnight generation as 12.7 GW of net imports fill the gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midnight on a clear summer night, Germany's grid draws 43.2 GW against 30.5 GW of domestic generation, resulting in approximately 12.7 GW of net imports. Brown coal leads the merit order at 8.3 GW, followed by onshore wind at 7.7 GW, natural gas at 5.7 GW, biomass at 3.9 GW, and hard coal at 3.5 GW. Solar contributes nothing at this hour, and offshore wind is negligible at 0.1 GW. The day-ahead price of 150.5 EUR/MWh reflects the significant import dependency and heavy reliance on thermal baseload; the renewable share of 42.8% is largely carried by onshore wind operating in light-wind conditions, which nonetheless delivers a meaningful share of overnight supply.
Grid poem Claude AI
Lignite towers exhale their ancient breath beneath a starless vault, while distant turbines turn like pale sentinels guarding the sleeping land. The grid thirsts beyond what the homeland can pour, and the price of darkness weighs heavy on every wire.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 25%
Wind offshore 0%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 27%
43%
Renewable share
7.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
30.5 GW
Total generation
12.7 GW
Net import
150.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.5°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
399
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers billowing pale steam into the night sky; onshore wind 7.7 GW stretches across the right third as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly on a gentle breeze; natural gas 5.7 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.5 GW appears centre-right as a traditional coal plant with a single large smokestack and conveyor infrastructure; biomass 3.9 GW sits in the mid-ground as a wood-chip-fed facility with a modest chimney and warm interior glow; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested in the far background as a small dam with spillway catching reflected light. The scene is set at midnight under a completely black sky studded with stars, zero cloud cover, a clear Milky Way faintly visible. All structures are lit only by sodium-orange industrial lighting, glowing control-room windows, and red aviation warning lights on the turbine nacelles. The atmosphere feels oppressive and heavy despite the clear sky, reflecting the high electricity price — a subtle yellowish industrial haze clings low to the ground around the thermal plants. Vegetation is lush midsummer — dark silhouettes of deciduous trees in full leaf, tall grass in foreground barely moving in the 2.9 km/h breeze. Temperature is a mild 16.5°C summer night. No solar panels visible anywhere. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark colour palette of deep navy, amber, and ochre; visible impasto brushwork; atmospheric depth with layers receding into darkness; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine blade, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. The painting evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale but applied to industrial infrastructure. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 July 2026, 00:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-10T22:20 UTC · Download image