Grid Poet — 13 July 2026, 06:00
Brown coal and imports dominate as early-morning solar ramps slowly under clear but low-angle skies.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 06:00 on a clear July morning, German domestic generation totals 28.4 GW against consumption of 51.7 GW, requiring approximately 23.3 GW of net imports. Brown coal leads generation at 8.0 GW, followed by wind (5.9 GW combined onshore and offshore) and solar at 3.7 GW—modest given the early hour despite clear skies. The day-ahead price of 149.8 EUR/MWh reflects the substantial import dependency and heavy reliance on thermal baseload, with natural gas at 3.3 GW and hard coal at 2.8 GW contributing to a fossil-heavy dispatch. As direct irradiance is just 1.0 W/m² at this pre-dawn stage, solar output should climb sharply over the next two hours, likely easing import requirements and moderating prices toward midday.
Grid poem Claude AI
The lignite towers exhale their pale breath into a sky barely waking, while turbines turn slow hymns across fields still cold with night's memory. Half the nation's hunger is fed from beyond the horizon, an invisible river of power flowing inward through copper veins.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 13%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 28%
50%
Renewable share
5.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.7 GW
Solar
28.4 GW
Total generation
23.3 GW
Net import
149.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.5°C / 7 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
363
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; wind onshore 4.1 GW appears as a row of modern three-blade turbines on gentle green hills in the centre-left middle ground, their rotors turning slowly; solar 3.7 GW is rendered as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre foreground catching the first pale grey-blue pre-dawn light; biomass 3.6 GW sits as a compact wood-chip plant with a single squat stack and stored timber piles in the centre-right; natural gas 3.3 GW appears as two sleek CCGT units with slim exhaust stacks and small heat-recovery housings to the right; hard coal 2.8 GW is a dark gritty coal-fired station with a single large chimney and conveyor belts in the far right; wind offshore 1.8 GW is suggested by distant turbines on a hazy horizon line at far left; hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small dam and spillway in the right foreground beside a stream. Time of day is 06:00 in July: deep blue-grey pre-dawn sky with a thin band of pale cold light on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight yet, the landscape still draped in cool shadow. Temperature 13.5°C: lush midsummer vegetation but with dew glistening on grass, a faint mist hanging in low valleys. Wind is light at 6.6 km/h so turbine blades barely rotate and trees are still. The sky is completely clear of clouds but feels heavy and oppressive due to the high electricity price—rendered as a dense, brooding atmospheric haze near the horizon with a faintly copper-tinged quality. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, rich deep colour palette of indigo, slate blue, and warm amber from industrial lights, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with layers of mist and distance. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy—turbine nacelles, lattice towers, cooling tower hyperboloid geometry, PV panel grid lines. Sodium streetlights and lit facility windows provide warm orange points of artificial light across the industrial panorama. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 July 2026, 06:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-13T04:20 UTC · Download image