Grid Poet — 24 July 2026, 20:00
Brown coal and gas dominate a 30.3 GW domestic supply requiring 21.7 GW net imports at elevated prices.
Back
← older newer →
Grid analysis Claude AI
At 20:00 on a summer evening, German domestic generation of 30.3 GW covers only 58% of the 52.0 GW consumption, requiring net imports of approximately 21.7 GW. Brown coal leads generation at 8.9 GW, followed by natural gas at 6.0 GW and hard coal at 3.9 GW, reflecting a heavily thermal dispatch profile. Wind contributes a combined 4.2 GW onshore and offshore, while solar delivers a residual 2.1 GW as the sun sets; biomass at 4.2 GW provides steady baseload support. The day-ahead price of 200 EUR/MWh is consistent with tight supply conditions driven by low renewable output, high thermal reliance, and substantial import dependency during peak evening demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
The furnaces of lignite glow beneath a darkening summer sky, their breath rising where the wind has failed and the sun has turned away. Twenty gigawatts flow inward from beyond the border, bought at a price that tastes of coal and distant turbines humming through the night.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 7%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 29%
38%
Renewable share
4.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.1 GW
Solar
30.3 GW
Total generation
21.7 GW
Net import
200.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.1°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
25.0% / 135.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
432
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 darkening sky; natural gas 6.0 GW fills the centre-left as three compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting heat shimmer; hard coal 3.9 GW appears centre-right as a smaller conventional coal plant with rectangular boiler buildings and a single squat cooling tower; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a pair of industrial wood-chip combustion facilities with corrugated metal sidings and modest chimneys emitting thin grey smoke, positioned just right of the gas plants; wind onshore 2.1 GW appears as a small group of three modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers on a low ridge in the right background, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze; wind offshore 2.1 GW is suggested by a faint line of turbines on the distant horizon; solar 2.1 GW is depicted as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground catching the very last faint amber light reflected from the low western horizon; hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse at the bottom edge of the composition near a dark river. The sky is a deep summer night at 20:00 in Berlin — the upper sky is dark navy-blue approaching black, with only a thin strip of residual amber-orange afterglow barely visible along the very lowest western horizon; no twilight glow overhead. The atmosphere is heavy, oppressive, and hazy, reflecting the 200 EUR/MWh price — industrial heat haze and warm humid air at 22°C create a suffocating, dense quality. Stars are not yet visible through the haze. Sodium streetlights cast orange pools of light along access roads between the plants. The landscape is flat central German terrain with summer-green deciduous trees and fields visible in the dim industrial illumination. Cloud cover is light at 25%, with scattered thin clouds barely visible against the dark sky. 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 coal-grey; visible impasto brushwork; dramatic chiaroscuro from the artificial lighting against the dark sky; atmospheric depth with industrial haze receding into the background. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 24 July 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-24T18:20 UTC · Download image