Grid Poet — 22 July 2026, 02:00
Brown coal and wind dominate nighttime generation as 7.4 GW net imports cover remaining German demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 on a summer night, German consumption sits at 43.0 GW with domestic generation covering 35.6 GW, requiring approximately 7.4 GW of net imports. Brown coal leads generation at 8.9 GW, followed by combined wind output of 13.1 GW (8.1 onshore, 5.0 offshore), providing a renewable share of 50.9%. Natural gas at 4.8 GW and hard coal at 3.8 GW are dispatched to cover mid-merit demand, while the day-ahead price of 143.2 EUR/MWh reflects the combination of moderate wind, absent solar, and reliance on thermal baseload and imports during the overnight trough.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a half-veiled moon the cooling towers breathe their pale columns into the dark, while turbine blades carve slow arcs through the summer night's restless wind. Coal and breeze share the watch, and the price of wakefulness burns steady as a furnace eye.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 14%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 25%
51%
Renewable share
13.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.6 GW
Total generation
7.4 GW
Net import
143.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.9°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
52.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
351
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.9 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the night sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; wind onshore 8.1 GW fills the centre-right as rows of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking; wind offshore 5.0 GW appears in the far right background as a line of turbines standing in a dark sea barely visible on the horizon, marked by tiny red lights; natural gas 4.8 GW sits centre-left as compact CCGT units with twin exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, illuminated by industrial floodlights; hard coal 3.8 GW appears beside the brown coal plant as a smaller power station with a single large smokestack and conveyor belts visible under spotlights; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded dome and wood-chip storage yard glowing under warm amber lights; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small concrete dam with water cascading, lit by a single floodlight in the lower right foreground. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow, with scattered clouds at 52% cover partially obscuring stars. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a warm humid summer night at 13.9°C with mild breeze barely stirring the grass. Gentle green summer vegetation on the hillsides. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich deep colour palette of indigo, amber, and charcoal, visible thick brushwork, atmospheric depth with layers of industrial haze, meticulous engineering detail on each facility. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 22 July 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-22T00:20 UTC · Download image