Grid Poet — 18 August 2026, 22:00
Wind leads at 16.2 GW but 10.3 GW net imports needed as solar is absent and thermal fills the evening gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 22:00 on a summer evening, German consumption sits at 49.2 GW against 38.9 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 10.3 GW of net imports. Wind contributes a combined 16.2 GW (onshore 13.0, offshore 3.2), forming the largest generation block, while thermal plants provide a substantial baseload with brown coal at 5.8 GW, natural gas at 7.5 GW, and hard coal at 4.0 GW. The day-ahead price of 191.4 EUR/MWh is elevated, reflecting the tight supply-demand balance after solar has dropped to zero and significant import dependency. Biomass at 4.2 GW and hydro at 1.3 GW round out the renewable contribution, bringing the overall renewable share to 55.5% despite the complete absence of solar generation.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines turn beneath a starless vault, their blades carving wind into light while cooling towers exhale pale ghosts into the August darkness. Coal and gas burn in silent covenant with the night, bridging the gulf between what the wind can give and what the cities demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 8%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 15%
56%
Renewable share
16.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
38.9 GW
Total generation
10.3 GW
Net import
191.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.1°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
99.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
294
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 13.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking; wind offshore 3.2 GW appears as a cluster of turbines visible on the far-right horizon over a distant dark sea. Brown coal 5.8 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium lamps in an industrial complex. Natural gas 7.5 GW fills the centre-left as a modern CCGT facility with tall slender exhaust stacks, glowing warmly with internal facility lighting and thin heat exhaust. Hard coal 4.0 GW sits behind the brown coal plant as a smaller cluster of rectangular boiler buildings with a single thick smokestack. Biomass 4.2 GW appears centre-right as a medium-sized industrial plant with wood-chip storage domes and a modest chimney, warmly lit. Hydro 1.3 GW is represented as a small concrete dam structure in the mid-ground valley with faint white water. The sky is completely dark, deep navy to black, no twilight, no sky glow, 99% cloud cover rendering the sky an oppressive featureless dark ceiling — no stars visible. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, and stifling, conveying the high electricity price. Temperature is a mild 17°C August night; vegetation is lush summer green visible only where industrial lighting falls. Sodium streetlights cast amber pools along access roads. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich deep colours, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower parabolic curve, CCGT exhaust stack, and industrial structure. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 18 August 2026, 22:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-18T20:20 UTC · Download image