Grid Poet — 8 August 2026, 02:00
Brown coal, hard coal, and gas dominate overnight generation while significant net imports cover a wide supply gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 on a summer night, German consumption sits at 38.5 GW against 27.2 GW of domestic generation, resulting in approximately 11.3 GW of net imports. Brown coal leads generation at 8.4 GW, supplemented by hard coal at 4.1 GW and natural gas at 4.3 GW, collectively providing 16.8 GW of thermal baseload. Wind contributes 5.2 GW combined (onshore 4.5 GW, offshore 0.7 GW), a modest output consistent with the light 4.4 km/h winds observed over central Germany. The day-ahead price of 145.2 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, reflecting the substantial import requirement and reliance on higher-cost thermal dispatch to meet load.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a moonless vault the coal fires breathe their ancient carbon hymn, towers exhaling pale ghosts into the August dark. The grid reaches across borders with open hands, drawing current from distant lands to feed the sleeping nation's pulse.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 31%
38%
Renewable share
5.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.2 GW
Total generation
11.2 GW
Net import
145.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.8°C / 4 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
445
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.4 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes into the black night sky; hard coal 4.1 GW appears left-of-centre as a smaller coal plant with rectangular boiler houses and a tall chimney stack glowing orange at its tip; natural gas 4.3 GW occupies the centre as two compact CCGT units with slim silver exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; wind onshore 4.5 GW fills the right-centre as a line of seven three-blade turbines on lattice towers turning slowly in the faint breeze; wind offshore 0.7 GW appears as two distant turbines barely visible on a far dark horizon line; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered right of the gas units as a wood-chip-fed industrial facility with a modest plume and warm amber-lit windows; hydro 1.2 GW appears at the far right as a small dam structure with a spillway glinting under sodium-yellow floodlights. The sky is completely black — a deep summer night at 2 AM with no twilight whatsoever, no sky glow, only a scattering of cold white stars visible between steam plumes. All illumination comes from harsh sodium streetlights casting amber pools on access roads, red aviation warning lights atop every stack and turbine nacelle, and the eerie interior glow of boiler-house windows. The atmosphere is heavy, oppressive, and hazy — steam and industrial vapour hanging low over the landscape, suggesting high electricity prices. Summer vegetation — dark silhouettes of full-canopied deciduous trees and tall grass — frames the foreground. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts, and atmospheric depth, yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 8 August 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-08T00:20 UTC · Download image