Grid Poet — 31 July 2026, 02:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate a 43 GW nighttime load met partly by 14.2 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 on a summer night, German demand sits at 43.0 GW while domestic generation totals only 28.8 GW, requiring approximately 14.2 GW of net imports. Brown coal leads generation at 10.6 GW, followed by natural gas at 5.8 GW and hard coal at 4.1 GW, reflecting heavy thermal dispatch to compensate for negligible wind (3.6 GW combined onshore and offshore) and zero solar output. The day-ahead price of 155.2 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime summer hour, consistent with the high import dependency and reliance on marginal-cost thermal units; the renewable share of 28.7% is carried almost entirely by biomass (3.7 GW) and the modest wind and hydro contributions.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless vault the furnaces breathe on, their ancient coal-fires purchasing the hours that wind and sun have abandoned. The grid drinks deep from distant borders, and the price of darkness climbs like smoke into a heavy sky.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 2%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 37%
29%
Renewable share
3.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
28.8 GW
Total generation
14.2 GW
Net import
155.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.9°C / 5 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
508
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 5.8 GW fills the center-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting shimmering heat haze; hard coal 4.1 GW appears center-right as a blocky coal-fired station with conveyor belts and a single large chimney trailing grey smoke; biomass 3.7 GW sits to the right as a smaller industrial plant with a rounded woodchip silo and modest stack; wind onshore 2.9 GW appears as a sparse cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, blades barely turning in light 5 km/h winds; hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small dam structure at the far right edge; wind offshore 0.7 GW is hinted at by tiny turbine silhouettes on a dark horizon line. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow — a clear summer night at 2 AM with stars faintly visible through a heavy oppressive industrial haze that conveys the high electricity price. The landscape is flat central German terrain with summer-green grass and mature deciduous trees in full leaf, barely visible in the darkness except where industrial floodlights cast harsh pools of amber light. Transmission towers with high-voltage lines recede into the gloom, symbolizing the large import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, somber palette of deep blues, blacks, warm oranges, and industrial greys — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, chiaroscuro contrast between the glowing industrial complexes and the surrounding darkness. Meticulous engineering detail on all structures: lattice towers with nacelles and three-blade rotors on the wind turbines, aluminium structural framing on the industrial buildings, reinforced concrete cooling towers with realistic proportions. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 31 July 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-31T00:20 UTC · Download image