Grid Poet — 10 August 2026, 18:00
Strong wind and fading solar lead generation at 83% renewables, but 8.1 GW net imports fill the evening gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on a warm August evening, the German grid draws 58.7 GW against 50.6 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 8.1 GW of net imports. Wind is the dominant source at 22.5 GW combined (onshore 19.5 GW, offshore 3.0 GW), while solar contributes a still-meaningful 14.7 GW in the late-afternoon western sun. Brown coal holds steady at 4.5 GW with natural gas at 2.5 GW and hard coal at 1.5 GW, providing baseload and flexibility to cover the gap alongside imports. The day-ahead price of 137.7 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance during a summer evening peak, with air conditioning loads elevated at 27 °C and solar output beginning its decline toward sunset.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines bow like silver monks at vespers, their hymn woven with the last amber threads of a sun already surrendering the sky. Beneath, the old coal furnaces breathe low and steady, ancient lungs refusing silence while the grid cries out for more.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 29%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
83%
Renewable share
22.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.7 GW
Solar
50.6 GW
Total generation
8.1 GW
Net import
137.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.0°C / 30 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
37.0% / 317.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
119
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 19.5 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills from the centre to the right, their rotors spinning briskly in strong wind; wind offshore 3.0 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller monopile turbines on the hazy horizon over a sliver of grey-blue sea at far right. Solar 14.7 GW fills the middle-left foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled westward, catching low golden light. Brown coal 4.5 GW occupies the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, with conveyor belts carrying dark lignite visible at their base. Biomass 3.7 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a tall rectangular stack and woodchip storage silos in the left-centre middle ground. Natural gas 2.5 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single sleek exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, tucked between the biomass plant and the coal complex. Hard coal 1.5 GW is a smaller conventional boiler plant with a single cylindrical chimney and a dark coal pile, partially obscured behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with white water cascading, visible in the lower-left corner beside a tree-lined riverbank. The lighting is late dusk at 18:00 in August Berlin time: the sun is low in the west, casting long amber-orange rays across the landscape with a warm golden-hour glow; the sky above transitions from pale warm blue near the horizon to a deeper blue overhead, with 37% cloud cover rendered as scattered altocumulus clouds lit from below in pink and copper tones. The air feels heavy and oppressive, slightly hazy, reflecting the high electricity price — a faint thermal shimmer rises from the coal towers. Vegetation is lush high-summer green, with tall grasses bending visibly in the 30 km/h wind. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 10 August 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-10T16:20 UTC · Download image