Grid Poet — 3 August 2026, 04:00
Wind onshore leads at 14.4 GW but brown coal and gas fill the solar-absent night, requiring 3.2 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 04:00 on a clear summer night, the German grid draws 40.1 GW against 36.9 GW of domestic generation, resulting in a net import of approximately 3.2 GW. Wind onshore provides the largest single contribution at 14.4 GW, though local wind speeds in central Germany are modest at 3.5 km/h, suggesting production is concentrated in northern and coastal regions. Brown coal provides a substantial baseload of 8.2 GW, supplemented by hard coal at 3.7 GW and natural gas at 3.8 GW — conventional thermal generation collectively reaches 15.7 GW, reflecting the absence of solar and the need to firm overnight demand. The day-ahead price of 132.7 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, consistent with the tight supply-demand balance requiring imports and keeping higher-marginal-cost thermal units dispatched.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines hum their vigil through the starlit dark, while coal furnaces glow like ancient embers refusing to sleep. A nation breathes beneath a sky of imports, balanced on the wire between wind and fire.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 22%
58%
Renewable share
16.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.9 GW
Total generation
3.2 GW
Net import
132.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.1°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
1.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
307
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.2 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into black sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; hard coal 3.7 GW sits just right of centre as a blocky power station with conveyor belts and a single large smokestack, glowing dimly; natural gas 3.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with twin exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, illuminated by facility floodlights; wind onshore 14.4 GW spans the entire right half and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the darkness, rotors turning slowly; wind offshore 2.0 GW is suggested on the far-right horizon as a faint line of blinking red dots above a dark sea; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip silo and single stack, warm interior light spilling through windows; hydro 1.1 GW is a small dam structure in the lower-right foreground with water gleaming under moonlight. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, perfectly clear with stars visible — no twilight, no sky glow on the horizon. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, conveying the tension of a high-price hour. Summer vegetation — full leafy trees and tall grass — is barely visible in the darkness, hinted at by silhouettes. All artificial lighting is warm sodium-orange and cool industrial white. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime darkness meeting Carl Blechen's industrial realism — rich deep colours, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 3 August 2026, 04:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-03T02:20 UTC · Download image