Grid Poet — 10 August 2026, 20:00
Wind leads at 20.5 GW but high evening demand of 56.1 GW forces 14.7 GW net imports and elevated prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 20:00 on a warm August evening, German consumption stands at 56.1 GW against 41.4 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 14.7 GW of net imports. Wind generation is robust at 20.5 GW combined (onshore 16.7, offshore 3.8), providing the largest single contribution and underpinning a 63.9% renewable share despite solar having effectively dropped off at this hour. Thermal plants are running at significant levels — brown coal at 7.1 GW, natural gas at 5.0 GW, and hard coal at 2.9 GW — reflecting the need to cover the gap between wind output and evening demand. The day-ahead price of 177 EUR/MWh is elevated, consistent with high residual load driving expensive marginal units and cross-border import volumes during a period of strong pan-European summer evening demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines churn through overcast darkness, their blades carving wind into light, while beneath them the ancient coal fires glow on, stubborn embers refusing the night. A nation stretches its copper veins across borders, drinking distant power to sate a summer evening's thirst.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 40%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 2%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 17%
64%
Renewable share
20.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.8 GW
Solar
41.4 GW
Total generation
14.7 GW
Net import
177.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.9°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
99.0% / 45.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
251
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.7 GW dominates the right two-fifths of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, blades visibly turning in moderate wind; brown coal 7.1 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, illuminated from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; natural gas 5.0 GW appears center-left as a compact CCGT facility with slender exhaust stacks and a single shorter cooling tower, lit by bright facility lighting; wind offshore 3.8 GW is suggested in the far background right as a line of turbines standing in a dark sea on the distant horizon, their aviation warning lights blinking red; hard coal 2.9 GW sits as a smaller coal plant with a single large smokestack adjacent to the lignite station; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial biogas facility with cylindrical digesters and a short flue, warmly lit; hydro 1.1 GW is a small dam structure barely visible in a valley in the mid-ground; solar 0.8 GW is negligible and absent from the scene. The sky is completely dark, a deep navy-black summer night at 20:00, with 99% cloud cover creating a low oppressive overcast ceiling that reflects the orange-amber glow of industrial sodium lights from below, giving the clouds a heavy sulphurous tinge. The atmosphere feels warm and humid at 23.9°C — lush dark-green summer foliage on deciduous trees, thick grass. The mood is tense and pressured, reflecting the 177 EUR/MWh price: the air feels thick, the cloud ceiling is low and claustrophobic. Distant transmission towers with glowing insulators recede into the murk, suggesting cross-border power flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the black sky and industrial glow, meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, cooling tower parabolic curves, and CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 10 August 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-10T18:20 UTC · Download image