Grid Poet — 20 July 2026, 06:00
Wind leads at 20.8 GW combined but dense overcast and weak solar drive 10.1 GW net imports and elevated prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 06:00 on a heavily overcast July morning, German generation totals 42.1 GW against consumption of 52.2 GW, resulting in approximately 10.1 GW of net imports. Wind onshore leads generation at 16.9 GW, complemented by 3.9 GW offshore, but solar contributes only 2.9 GW given the dense cloud cover and early hour with no direct irradiance. Brown coal provides a substantial 7.4 GW baseload, with hard coal at 3.2 GW and gas at 2.8 GW rounding out the thermal fleet — together these conventional sources reflect the need to compensate for the weak solar performance and the significant import requirement, consistent with the elevated day-ahead price of 149.3 EUR/MWh.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden shroud the turbines turn their lonely vigil, while furnaces of ancient carbon breathe their amber glow across the Thuringian dawn. The grid reaches across borders with outstretched hands, hungry for the gigawatts the clouded sun refuses to give.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 40%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 7%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 18%
68%
Renewable share
20.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.9 GW
Solar
42.1 GW
Total generation
10.1 GW
Net import
149.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.0°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
91.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
233
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills into the misty distance; brown coal 7.4 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky; wind offshore 3.9 GW appears as a line of turbines on a grey North Sea horizon visible through a gap between hills; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a tall stack and wood-chip storage silos; hard coal 3.2 GW sits adjacent to the brown coal plant as a smaller power station with a conveyor belt and dark coal pile; solar 2.9 GW is a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the foreground, their surfaces dull and unreflective under the thick clouds; natural gas 2.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a single clean exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway in a wooded valley at the far right. The sky is pre-dawn deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon — no direct sun visible, no warm colours in the sky, only cold diffuse light beginning to separate land from cloud. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — low clouds press down on the landscape, moisture hangs in the air, and the cooling tower plumes flatten and spread laterally. Temperature is a cool 12°C in midsummer, so the vegetation is lush and deeply green but glistening with morning dew and mist. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich tonal depth, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with misty layers receding into distance, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the dark pre-dawn sky. Each energy technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 20 July 2026, 06:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-20T04:20 UTC · Download image