Grid Poet — 20 July 2026, 00:00
Wind leads at 19.1 GW but 6.3 GW net imports and coal baseload are needed to meet overnight demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midnight on a midsummer night, wind generation is robust at 19.1 GW combined (onshore 14.8, offshore 4.3), delivering the bulk of a 67.2% renewable share. Solar is naturally absent. Brown coal at 6.3 GW and hard coal at 3.0 GW provide substantial baseload, supplemented by 2.7 GW of natural gas, indicating firm thermal dispatch to cover the gap between 36.5 GW domestic generation and 42.8 GW consumption — implying roughly 6.3 GW of net imports. The day-ahead price of 147.5 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, likely reflecting tight supply margins across the interconnected European market and the need for thermal and import capacity to meet residual load.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a moonless vault of overcast black, the turbines turn their tireless vigil while coal towers exhale pale ghosts into the pressing dark. The grid draws breath from distant borders, its hunger unsated by wind alone.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 41%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 17%
67%
Renewable share
19.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.5 GW
Total generation
6.3 GW
Net import
147.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.0°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
239
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.3 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick pale steam plumes rising into blackness; hard coal 3.0 GW appears just left of centre as a large power station with conveyor belts and a single tall smokestack glowing faintly orange; natural gas 2.7 GW sits at centre as a compact CCGT facility with twin exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by harsh sodium lamps; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with woodchip storage and a modest chimney, warmly lit; hydro 1.2 GW is rendered as a small dam with a luminous spillway at lower right; wind onshore 14.8 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling hills into the deep background, their red aviation lights blinking; wind offshore 4.3 GW is suggested by a line of turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sliver of sea. Time is midnight: the sky is completely black with 100% cloud cover — no moon, no stars, no twilight glow whatsoever, only a deep oppressive charcoal-black overcast pressing down. All illumination comes from artificial sources: sodium-orange streetlights along access roads, blue-white LED floods on plant perimeters, glowing control-room windows, and the red pulse of turbine beacons. The atmosphere feels heavy and warm for a July night, summer foliage on trees rendered as dense dark masses. Lush green grass is barely visible under lamplight. The elevated price is conveyed by a brooding, dense, oppressive atmosphere — the cloud ceiling feels low and heavy. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich chiaroscuro, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth — with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and industrial detail. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 20 July 2026, 00:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-19T22:02 UTC · Download image