Grid Poet — 6 August 2026, 20:00
Wind dominates at 22.5 GW but fading solar and high evening demand drive 12.5 GW net imports and elevated prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 20:00 on a warm August evening, Germany draws 54.3 GW against 41.8 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 12.5 GW of net imports. Wind remains the dominant source at 22.5 GW combined (onshore 17.2 GW, offshore 5.3 GW), while solar has largely dropped off at 1.0 GW as the sun sets. Thermal plants provide a substantial backstop: brown coal at 5.9 GW, natural gas at 4.6 GW, and hard coal at 2.4 GW, alongside 4.2 GW of biomass and 1.2 GW of hydro. The day-ahead price of 162.7 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance and the dispatch of higher-marginal-cost thermal units during the evening demand peak, a routine summer evening pattern when solar fades but load remains elevated from cooling and industrial activity.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines spin their silver hymns across the darkening plain, while coal fires breathe their ancient heat to fill where sunlight waned.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 41%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 2%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 14%
69%
Renewable share
22.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.0 GW
Solar
41.8 GW
Total generation
12.5 GW
Net import
162.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.0°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
45.0% / 38.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
213
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and aerodynamic nacelles, blades visibly turning in moderate wind, stretching across rolling green farmland into the distance; wind offshore 5.3 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly visible sea line; brown coal 5.9 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the dark sky, flanked by low industrial buildings with conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles; natural gas 4.6 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by warm sodium lighting; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized plant with a cylindrical silo and wood-chip storage yard, glowing warmly from internal furnace light, positioned centre; hard coal 2.4 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional boiler house with a single square stack and red aviation warning lights; hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam structure with spillway visible at the far left near a river; solar 1.0 GW is barely visible as a small dark array of crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, unlit and inactive. The sky is completely dark — a deep navy-black August night sky at 20:00, no twilight remains, no sunset glow; scattered clouds at 45% coverage are faintly illuminated from below by the orange sodium streetlights and industrial facility lighting. The air feels warm at 22°C with lush green summer vegetation — full-leafed deciduous trees and tall grass. The atmosphere is heavy and slightly oppressive, haze hanging around the cooling tower plumes, conveying the tension of high electricity prices. All rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, deep colours with visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the dark sky and the warm industrial glow, atmospheric depth receding into misty distance, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 6 August 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-06T18:21 UTC · Download image