Grid Poet — 13 August 2026, 02:00
Brown coal, onshore wind, and gas dominate a tight overnight grid requiring net imports at elevated prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 on a summer night, German consumption sits at 40.5 GW against 38.5 GW domestic generation, requiring approximately 2.0 GW of net imports. Wind onshore delivers 12.6 GW despite low surface wind speeds in central Germany, suggesting stronger flow in northern and coastal regions, while offshore wind contributes a modest 1.3 GW. Thermal baseload is substantial: brown coal at 9.7 GW, hard coal at 4.2 GW, and natural gas at 5.9 GW collectively provide 19.8 GW, reflecting the need to fill the gap left by zero solar output and a renewable share of only 48.6%. The day-ahead price of 143.4 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, consistent with firm thermal dispatch costs and tight supply-demand margins requiring imports.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a moonless vault the turbines turn like restless sentinels, while lignite furnaces breathe their ancient carbon into the still August dark. The grid draws breath from every source it can, yet still reaches across borders for the watts it lacks.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 25%
49%
Renewable share
13.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
38.5 GW
Total generation
2.1 GW
Net import
143.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.7°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
363
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.7 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the black night sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps revealing detailed concrete textures; wind onshore 12.6 GW spans the right half as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers receding into the dark distance across gentle rolling hills, red aviation warning lights blinking on nacelles; natural gas 5.9 GW appears centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by harsh industrial floodlights; hard coal 4.2 GW sits centre-right as a coal-fired station with a single large stack and conveyor infrastructure, glowing windows and amber security lighting; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a smaller industrial facility with a rounded silo and modest chimney near the centre; hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small dam structure in the far background with faint spillway lights; wind offshore 1.3 GW is suggested by a few distant turbines on a dark horizon line suggesting the sea. The sky is completely black with a deep navy gradient near the horizon, no moon visible, stars faintly scattered, clear with zero cloud cover. The August landscape has lush dark-green deciduous trees and grass barely visible in ambient light, temperature mild at 12.7 °C with a faint ground-level mist. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite clear skies, reflecting a high electricity price — a dense, weighty stillness pervades the scene. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, rich saturated colour in the darks, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro from industrial lighting against the vast dark sky, atmospheric depth through layered receding planes, meticulous engineering detail on every technology. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 August 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-13T00:20 UTC · Download image