Grid Poet — 12 July 2026, 22:00
Wind and brown coal lead nighttime generation as Germany imports 14.6 GW to meet warm-evening demand at elevated prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 22:00 on a warm July evening, Germany's grid is drawing 46.6 GW against 32.0 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 14.6 GW of net imports. Wind generation is solid at 12.6 GW combined (onshore 9.5 GW, offshore 3.1 GW), while solar is naturally absent post-sunset. Brown coal leads thermal dispatch at 7.4 GW, supplemented by natural gas at 4.1 GW and hard coal at 2.7 GW — a typical evening pattern where baseload lignite and peaking gas fill the gap left by zero solar. The day-ahead price of 144.9 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance and reliance on higher-marginal-cost gas and imports to meet demand on a warm summer night when cooling loads persist.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless vault the brown towers exhale their ancient carbon breath, while turbine blades carve silver arcs through the humid dark. The grid reaches across borders with outstretched copper arms, buying the megawatts the vanished sun refused to leave behind.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 23%
56%
Renewable share
12.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
32.0 GW
Total generation
14.6 GW
Net import
144.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.1°C / 12 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
317
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 9.5 GW spans the right third of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, rotors turning moderately on a summer night hillside; wind offshore 3.1 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon over a dark sea glimpsed between hills; brown coal 7.4 GW dominates the left quarter as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes illuminated from below by orange sodium lights; natural gas 4.1 GW occupies the centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, lit by white industrial floodlights; hard coal 2.7 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller station with a single large smokestack and coal conveyors visible under spotlights; biomass 4.0 GW appears centre-right as a wood-chip-fed plant with a modest chimney and illuminated fuel storage silos; hydro 1.1 GW is a small dam structure in the middle distance with water catching industrial light. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow — a true 22:00 midsummer night with a scattering of stars barely visible through humid haze. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — warm moist air hangs over the landscape, steam from cooling towers spreading and merging into a low canopy. Lush green summer vegetation on rolling hills is visible only where artificial light falls. Foreground wildflowers and tall grass suggest 23°C warmth. Sodium-orange and cool-white industrial lighting casts dramatic contrasts. High-voltage transmission lines with red aviation warning lights stretch across the scene toward the horizon, symbolizing import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial realism — with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 12 July 2026, 22:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-12T20:20 UTC · Download image