Grid Poet — 12 August 2026, 22:00
Brown coal, gas, and wind lead generation as high evening demand and zero solar drive 190 EUR/MWh prices and significant net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 22:00 on a clear August evening, German generation totals 38.4 GW against 49.3 GW consumption, resulting in approximately 10.9 GW of net imports. Renewables contribute 47.4% of domestic generation, led by 13.0 GW of combined wind and supported by 4.1 GW biomass and 1.1 GW hydro; solar is absent at this hour. Thermal plants are running at significant levels — brown coal at 9.2 GW, natural gas at 6.9 GW, and hard coal at 4.1 GW — reflecting firm evening demand and the need to compensate for zero solar output. The day-ahead price of 190.7 EUR/MWh is elevated, consistent with high residual load drawing in costly marginal generation and cross-border imports during a summer nighttime period of limited renewable availability.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a moonless vault the furnaces exhale, brown towers breathing ghost-white columns into the starless dark, while distant turbine blades carve slow arcs through warm and windless air. The grid, hungry and taut, reaches across borders with outstretched copper hands, buying the watts the sky tonight refuses to give.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 18%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 24%
47%
Renewable share
13.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
38.4 GW
Total generation
10.8 GW
Net import
190.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.3°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
1.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
364
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.2 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the black night sky, their concrete surfaces lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; natural gas 6.9 GW occupies the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, glowing warmly under facility lighting; hard coal 4.1 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired plant with a rectangular boiler house, conveyor belts, and a single smokestack with faint grey emissions; wind onshore 11.8 GW spans the right third and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling dark hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking in the darkness, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 1.2 GW is suggested by a few distant turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly reflective body of water; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with cylindrical silos and a modest smokestack near the centre, warmly lit; hydro 1.1 GW is represented by a small concrete dam structure in the lower right foreground with water faintly catching reflected light. The sky is completely dark, deep black-navy with no twilight glow whatsoever, a few stars visible through the perfectly clear sky (1% cloud cover). The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, conveying the tension of a 190.7 EUR/MWh price — a subtle amber-brown haze clings low around the industrial facilities. Summer vegetation: lush dark green deciduous trees and tall grass in the foreground, barely visible except where caught by artificial light. The warm 19°C August night is suggested by the verdant landscape. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, deep colour palette dominated by blacks, deep blues, warm oranges, and industrial ambers; visible impasto brushwork; dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro lighting; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 12 August 2026, 22:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-12T20:20 UTC · Download image