Grid Poet — 25 July 2026, 00:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate overnight generation as low wind and high imports drive prices to 167 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midnight on a clear summer night, German domestic generation reaches only 27.6 GW against 42.6 GW consumption, requiring approximately 15.0 GW of net imports. Brown coal leads generation at 9.0 GW, followed by natural gas at 5.7 GW and hard coal at 4.0 GW, collectively providing two-thirds of domestic output. Wind generation is subdued at 3.9 GW combined onshore and offshore, consistent with the light 6 km/h winds observed, and solar is absent as expected at this hour. The day-ahead price of 167.1 EUR/MWh is notably elevated for a nighttime hour, reflecting the tight supply-demand balance and heavy reliance on thermal dispatch and cross-border flows to meet load.
Grid poem Claude AI
The coal fires burn beneath a starlit vault, their towers exhaling pale ghosts into the still July air, while the sleeping land draws power from distant borders. In the hush of midnight, the grid strains like a taut wire humming with the weight of an entire nation's restless dreams.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 6%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 32%
32%
Renewable share
3.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.6 GW
Total generation
15.0 GW
Net import
167.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.6°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
476
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the black night sky; hard coal 4.0 GW appears as a pair of large coal-fired plants with tall square chimneys and glowing furnace windows at centre-left; natural gas 5.7 GW fills the centre as two modern CCGT units with slender cylindrical exhaust stacks venting shimmering heat haze, their turbine halls lit by sodium-orange industrial lighting; biomass 4.1 GW sits at centre-right as a smaller industrial facility with a broad rectangular boiler building, wood-chip conveyor belts faintly illuminated, and a single squat smokestack; wind onshore 2.1 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge to the right, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the darkness, rotors barely turning in the light breeze; wind offshore 1.8 GW is suggested by a few tiny red lights on the far-right horizon over a dark plain; hydro 1.0 GW is a modest dam structure nestled in the far background with faint blue-white security lights reflecting off still water. The sky is entirely black with a clear starfield and a sliver of moon, zero cloud cover, no twilight whatsoever. The summer landscape shows lush dark green deciduous trees and meadow grass visible only where sodium streetlights and facility floodlights cast pools of warm orange light. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, with a hazy industrial pall hanging low, reflecting the very high electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, dark palette of deep navy, amber, and burnt sienna, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the surrounding darkness, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack, evoking Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale but applied to an industrial nocturne. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 25 July 2026, 00:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-24T22:20 UTC · Download image