Grid Poet — 9 August 2026, 02:00
Wind onshore and brown coal dominate overnight generation as net imports of 4 GW cover the supply gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 on a summer night, German consumption sits at 35.4 GW against 31.4 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 4.0 GW of net imports. Wind onshore provides the largest single source at 13.3 GW, though local wind speeds in central Germany are low at 2 km/h, indicating stronger production in northern and coastal regions. Brown coal contributes a substantial 7.9 GW as baseload, complemented by 2.4 GW of hard coal and 2.2 GW of natural gas, reflecting the thermal fleet's role in filling the overnight gap when solar is absent. The day-ahead price of 136.4 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, consistent with tight supply-demand conditions and the cost of maintaining fossil-fired capacity alongside import requirements.
Grid poem Claude AI
Lignite fires smolder beneath a starless August sky, their ancient carbon exhaled into the humid dark where distant turbine blades turn slow and sure. The grid draws breath from foreign borders, a quiet cost tallied in euros while the sleeping land consumes what its own fields cannot yet provide.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 42%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 25%
60%
Renewable share
14.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
31.4 GW
Total generation
4.0 GW
Net import
136.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.8°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
64.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
298
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 13.3 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling northern German plains into deep darkness; brown coal 7.9 GW occupies the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by amber industrial lighting; hard coal 2.4 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired plant with a single rectangular stack and conveyor belts in the left-centre middle ground; natural gas 2.2 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a slender exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer in the centre-left; biomass 3.6 GW appears as a medium-sized industrial plant with a cylindrical silo and short chimney near centre; wind offshore 1.0 GW is suggested by a few distant turbines visible on a dark horizon line at far right; hydro 1.0 GW is a small run-of-river weir with spillway foam barely visible in the foreground. Time is 02:00 in August — completely dark sky, deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow, stars barely visible through 64% cloud cover, heavy oppressive atmosphere reflecting high electricity price. All structures illuminated only by sodium-orange industrial floodlights, red aviation warning beacons on turbine nacelles, and faint amber glow from plant windows. Summer vegetation — lush dark green grass and leafy trees — visible only where caught by artificial light. Humid mid-August air creates slight haze around cooling tower plumes. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth with layers of industrial haze and darkness, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower reinforcement rib, gas turbine exhaust diffuser, and coal conveyor structure. The mood is weighty, industrial, nocturnal. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 9 August 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-09T00:20 UTC · Download image