Grid Poet — 16 July 2026, 00:00
Brown coal, gas, and wind anchor overnight generation as 13.1 GW of net imports fill the consumption gap.
Back
← older newer →
Grid analysis Claude AI
At midnight on a warm summer night, the German grid draws 46.3 GW against 33.2 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 13.1 GW of net imports. Brown coal provides the backbone at 10.0 GW, supplemented by natural gas at 5.0 GW and hard coal at 3.9 GW, while wind contributes a combined 9.0 GW onshore and offshore alongside 3.9 GW of biomass and 1.5 GW of hydro. The renewable share stands at 43.1%, respectable for a nighttime hour without solar contribution. The day-ahead price of 166.0 EUR/MWh is elevated, consistent with substantial import dependency and heavy reliance on thermal dispatch to cover the gap between domestic supply and demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starlit vault of midsummer black, the coal furnaces breathe their ancient breath while turbines turn in restless wind — the grid, hungry and awake, drinks deep from every source the dark land offers. Thirteen gigawatts flow inward across invisible borders, the price of a nation that never sleeps.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 30%
43%
Renewable share
9.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
33.2 GW
Total generation
13.1 GW
Net import
166.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.1°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
2.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
409
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into a black midsummer night sky; natural gas 5.0 GW occupies the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks glowing faintly with internal combustion light; hard coal 3.9 GW appears centre-right as older industrial boiler houses with brick chimneys and orange-lit conveyor belts; biomass 3.9 GW sits as a pair of smaller facilities with cylindrical storage silos and modest stacks, lit by sodium-yellow industrial lamps; wind onshore 7.9 GW spans the right third as a long row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the deep-navy-to-black sky, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 1.1 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea sliver; hydro 1.5 GW is rendered as a small dam structure with spillway in the lower right foreground, floodlit in cold white light. The sky is completely dark, no twilight, no sky glow — a cloudless black canopy with scattered stars overhead. The warm 21°C midsummer air is suggested by lush green deciduous trees and tall grass in the foreground, visible under the amber pools of sodium streetlights lining a road that winds through the industrial landscape. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, conveying the weight of high electricity prices — a slight industrial haze clings low, tinged amber from artificial lighting. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the deep night sky and the glowing industrial facilities, atmospheric depth receding into distant darkness, meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 16 July 2026, 00:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-15T22:20 UTC · Download image