Grid Poet — 25 July 2026, 20:00
Wind leads at 12.5 GW but fading solar and high demand drive 16.7 GW net imports and elevated prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 20:00 on a warm July evening, German generation totals 31.5 GW against 48.2 GW consumption, requiring approximately 16.7 GW of net imports. Solar has largely dropped off at 1.9 GW with the late hour, while wind contributes a combined 12.5 GW onshore and offshore. Brown coal at 5.6 GW and natural gas at 3.9 GW provide substantial baseload and mid-merit support, with hard coal adding 2.4 GW. The day-ahead price of 170.3 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance and heavy import dependence during this evening demand plateau, though such pricing is characteristic of summer evening peaks when solar recedes before consumption falls.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun retreats behind a veil of haze, and turbines churn against the darkening plain while coal fires burn their ancient debt below. The grid stretches its arms across the borders, drawing distant current through the summer night.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 14%
Solar 6%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 18%
62%
Renewable share
12.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.9 GW
Solar
31.5 GW
Total generation
16.6 GW
Net import
170.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.8°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
42.0% / 132.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
262
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 8.1 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills; wind offshore 4.4 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon over a faintly visible sea; brown coal 5.6 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky, adjacent open-pit mine terraces barely visible; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall stack and wood-chip storage silos in the left-center; natural gas 3.9 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and heat-recovery unit in the center-left; hard coal 2.4 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional power station with a single square cooling tower and conveyor belt; solar 1.9 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the center-right foreground catching the last faint ambient light but no direct sun; hydro 1.0 GW is a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a valley in the far background. The sky is a deep summer night scene at 20:00 in July — the sky above is dark navy transitioning to black at the zenith, with only the faintest residual amber glow on the lowest western horizon; 42% cloud cover as scattered dark clouds; the landscape is illuminated by sodium streetlights casting orange pools, lit industrial windows, and the red aviation warning lights atop turbine nacelles blinking. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive reflecting the 170.3 EUR/MWh price — humid summer warmth with haze hanging over the industrial facilities. Lush midsummer vegetation, full-canopy deciduous trees with dark green foliage, warm 25.8°C evening. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich colour palette of deep blues, warm oranges, and industrial greys, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layered distances, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and panel frame. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 25 July 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-25T18:20 UTC · Download image