Grid Poet — 5 August 2026, 00:00
Wind and coal anchor overnight generation while 10.8 GW net imports fill high summer demand at midnight.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midnight on a warm August night, German consumption sits at 43.3 GW against 32.5 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 10.8 GW of net imports. Wind provides a combined 11.1 GW (onshore 8.2 GW, offshore 2.9 GW), which together with biomass and hydro brings the renewable share to 49.3%. Thermal baseload is running heavily, with brown coal at 6.7 GW, hard coal at 4.2 GW, and natural gas at 5.5 GW — collectively 16.4 GW of fossil generation. The day-ahead price of 155.2 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, reflecting the substantial import requirement and sustained summer cooling loads keeping demand well above typical overnight levels.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless August vault, the furnaces breathe their amber hymn while turbine blades carve silence from the wind's warm pulse. Coal and flame conspire to bridge the chasm between what the land yields and what the cities demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 25%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 21%
49%
Renewable share
11.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
32.5 GW
Total generation
10.8 GW
Net import
155.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.1°C / 10 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
350
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.7 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers rising into the black night sky, steam plumes glowing faintly amber from internal furnace light; hard coal 4.2 GW sits just right of centre-left as a blocky power station with conveyor belts and twin smokestacks emitting pale grey exhaust lit from below by sodium lamps; natural gas 5.5 GW occupies the centre as two compact CCGT units with slender exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer, their turbine halls illuminated by white industrial floodlights; wind onshore 8.2 GW fills the right third as a sweeping line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills, red aviation warning lights blinking at nacelle height, blades slowly turning in light breeze; wind offshore 2.9 GW appears in the far-right background as a row of turbines standing in a dark sea barely visible on the horizon, marked by clusters of red lights; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-sized plant with a rounded silo and modest smokestack near the centre-right, warmly lit by yellowish security lighting; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway in the far left background, lit by a single floodlight reflecting on dark water. The sky is completely black with no twilight, no moon, only faint stars partially obscured by 27% cloud cover rendered as thin wisps. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting 155 EUR/MWh pricing — a dense, hazy quality to the air, humid summer warmth suggested by lush green vegetation faintly visible under sodium streetlights along a road in the foreground. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich chiaroscuro, dramatic contrast between the black sky and the amber-orange industrial glow, visible impasto brushwork in the steam plumes, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 5 August 2026, 00:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-04T22:20 UTC · Download image