Grid Poet — 26 July 2026, 02:00
Brown coal leads at 6.3 GW as calm, overcast night drives 15.6 GW net imports at elevated prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 on a summer night, German consumption sits at 38.6 GW against 23.0 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 15.6 GW of net imports. Brown coal provides the largest single block at 6.3 GW, followed by wind (combined onshore and offshore at 6.1 GW) and biomass at 3.8 GW. The day-ahead price of 148 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, reflecting the combination of low wind output under near-calm conditions (3.1 km/h), zero solar, and the consequent reliance on thermal baseload and substantial cross-border imports. Renewable share stands at 47%, sustained primarily by wind and biomass, though thermal generation from brown coal, hard coal, and gas collectively accounts for 12.1 GW.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a lidded sky the furnaces breathe slow, their amber glow the only dawn this darkened grid will know. Turbines stand like sentinels in windless summer air, while coal-fed embers purchase what the silent breeze won't spare.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 16%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 28%
47%
Renewable share
6.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
23.0 GW
Total generation
15.7 GW
Net import
148.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.3°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
379
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into the black sky, with glowing conveyor belts of lignite visible at their base; wind onshore 4.9 GW occupies the centre-right as a scattered line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers with rotors virtually still in the calm air, their red aviation warning lights blinking; natural gas 3.3 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by sodium-yellow floodlights; hard coal 2.5 GW sits beside the brown coal as a smaller conventional power station with a single large smokestack and coal bunkers illuminated under industrial lighting; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded silo and wood-chip conveyor, warm interior light glowing from its windows, positioned centre-right behind the turbines; hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small concrete dam structure in the far right background with a faint white cascade of water catching floodlight; wind offshore 1.2 GW is suggested in the far distance as a row of tiny red navigation lights on the horizon line. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, fully overcast with thick low clouds faintly reflecting the orange-amber industrial glow from below — no stars, no moon, no twilight. The landscape is a flat German lowland with lush midsummer vegetation barely visible in the artificial light, grass and deciduous trees in full dark-green leaf. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, oppressive — the overcast ceiling presses down. Sodium streetlights line a road in the foreground. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the industrial amber glow and the surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth receding into haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 26 July 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-26T00:20 UTC · Download image