Grid Poet — 11 July 2026, 02:00
Brown coal and gas anchor overnight generation while 12.8 GW net imports fill the consumption gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 on a July night, German domestic generation totals 27.3 GW against consumption of 40.1 GW, requiring approximately 12.8 GW of net imports. Brown coal leads generation at 8.3 GW, followed by natural gas at 5.4 GW, wind onshore at 5.7 GW, and biomass at 3.5 GW; offshore wind is negligible at 0.1 GW and solar is absent. The day-ahead price of 141.1 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, reflecting the substantial import dependency and the need for thermal baseload to compensate for modest wind output and zero solar. The renewable share of 38.7% is carried almost entirely by onshore wind and biomass, a typical summer nocturnal pattern where low wind speeds limit turbine output well below installed capacity.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a half-veiled moon the smokestacks breathe their tireless hymn, brown towers standing sentinel while turbines turn like distant prayer wheels in the windless dark. The grid drinks deep from foreign rivers of electrons, its hunger outpacing the embers of its own restless furnaces.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 0%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 30%
39%
Renewable share
5.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.3 GW
Total generation
12.8 GW
Net import
141.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.2°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
50.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
430
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 5.4 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with slender exhaust stacks trailing thin vapour; wind onshore 5.7 GW spans the centre-right as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, blades turning very slowly in near-calm air; biomass 3.5 GW appears at far right as a medium-sized industrial plant with a rectangular stack and a wood-chip conveyor illuminated by white floodlights; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam structure with spillway visible in the deep background; hard coal 3.1 GW sits behind the brown coal complex as a secondary set of rectangular boiler houses with a single large chimney trailing dark smoke. Setting: 02:00 full night, completely dark sky, deep navy-black with no twilight or sky glow, half-clouded so a few stars peek through cloud gaps, a faint crescent moon partially obscured. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, haze thickening around the cooling towers, reflecting the high electricity price. Mid-summer vegetation: dark silhouettes of full-leafed deciduous trees and tall grass in the foreground, temperature mild at 13°C so no frost, slight ground mist curling around the turbine bases. All facilities glow with artificial lighting — amber sodium streetlights along access roads, white halogen floods on industrial buildings, red aviation warning lights blinking atop turbine nacelles and smokestacks. Transmission pylons recede into the murky distance, hinting at the import corridors. 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 of deep indigo, burnt umber, ochre, and warm orange, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 July 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-11T00:20 UTC · Download image