Grid Poet — 8 August 2026, 04:00
Brown coal and fossil thermal plants dominate overnight generation as low wind and absent solar drive significant net imports.
Back
← older newer →
Grid analysis Claude AI
At 04:00 on a summer night, German consumption sits at 38.0 GW against 26.0 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 12.0 GW of net imports. Brown coal leads the generation stack at 8.1 GW, followed by hard coal at 4.1 GW and natural gas at 4.0 GW, reflecting the typical thermal-heavy overnight baseload profile. Wind contributes a modest 4.7 GW combined onshore and offshore under light wind conditions of 3.6 km/h, while solar is expectedly absent at this hour. The day-ahead price of 143.9 EUR/MWh is notably elevated for a nighttime hour, likely driven by the substantial import requirement and high thermal generation costs amid limited renewable output.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a moonless vault the brown towers exhale their ancient carbon, feeding an insatiable dark that drinks twelve gigawatts from distant lands. The turbines barely whisper, starved of wind, while coal's dull ember holds the nation's pulse until the sun returns.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 16%
Brown coal 31%
37%
Renewable share
4.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
26.0 GW
Total generation
12.1 GW
Net import
143.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.2°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
2.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
451
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.1 GW dominates the left third of the composition as a massive cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into black sky; hard coal 4.1 GW sits just right of centre as a gritty industrial complex with conveyor belts and rectangular stacks glowing faintly orange; natural gas 4.0 GW appears as a pair of compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour, lit by sodium-yellow floodlights; wind onshore 4.0 GW occupies the right portion as a sparse row of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, rotors nearly still under negligible wind, their red aviation warning lights blinking; wind offshore 0.7 GW is suggested by distant tiny turbine silhouettes on the far-right horizon; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip fired plant with a modest dome and low exhaust near the centre-right; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small dam structure in the far background with faint white water. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight, no moon, stars barely visible through an almost perfectly clear sky with only 2% cloud cover. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive reflecting the high electricity price — the air thick with industrial haze and steam hanging low. Summer vegetation is lush but barely visible, rendered as dark silhouettes of deciduous trees and tall grass in the foreground. Sodium streetlights cast pools of amber on wet-looking roads. The entire scene is painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth receding into industrial haze, meticulous engineering detail on every cooling tower, turbine nacelle, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 8 August 2026, 04:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-08T02:20 UTC · Download image