Grid Poet — 28 July 2026, 02:00
Wind and brown coal anchor overnight generation as Germany imports 9 GW to meet 42.8 GW demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 on a summer night, German consumption sits at 42.8 GW against 33.8 GW of domestic generation, resulting in a net import of approximately 9.0 GW. Wind provides 12.4 GW combined (onshore 9.1, offshore 3.3), while the thermal baseload stack of brown coal (8.9 GW), hard coal (4.0 GW), and natural gas (3.6 GW) collectively delivers 16.5 GW. The day-ahead price of 141.3 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, reflecting the significant import requirement and the cost of dispatching substantial coal and gas capacity to meet demand that wind alone cannot cover. Renewable share stands at 51.2%, driven entirely by wind and biomass at this hour, with solar naturally absent.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless vault the brown towers breathe their ancient carbon into the humid dark, while turbine blades carve slow arcs through a wind too gentle to carry the full burden. The grid reaches across borders with open hands, buying what the night cannot grow.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 26%
51%
Renewable share
12.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
33.8 GW
Total generation
9.0 GW
Net import
141.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.4°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
27.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
357
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.9 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes into the black night sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; hard coal 4.0 GW appears as a pair of large coal-fired stations with tall rectangular stacks and conveyor gantries just right of centre, glowing dimly under industrial floodlights; natural gas 3.6 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT units with slender single exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour, positioned in the centre-right middle ground; wind onshore 9.1 GW fills the right third and extends into the background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the darkness, rotors turning slowly in light 3.8 km/h wind; wind offshore 3.3 GW is suggested on the far-right horizon as a faint row of nacelle lights above an invisible sea; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-burning plant with a single squat stack and small steam plume near the centre foreground; hydro 1.0 GW is a small dam structure with illuminated spillway at the far left edge. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black with no twilight glow whatsoever, a few stars visible through 27% cloud cover of thin alto-stratus patches. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 141.3 EUR/MWh price — a low humid haze clings to the ground, tinted amber by sodium streetlights lining a road in the foreground. Summer vegetation — lush dark-green deciduous trees and tall grass — is barely visible in the artificial light, glistening slightly with overnight dew at 13.4°C. A high-voltage transmission pylon with bundled conductors stands prominently in the mid-ground, symbolising the import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between industrial light and surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth receding into misty distance — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 28 July 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-28T00:20 UTC · Download image