Grid Poet — 19 August 2026, 02:00
Wind leads at 15.1 GW but 15.8 GW of fossil thermal and 4.9 GW net imports fill overnight demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 on a summer night, Germany draws 41.0 GW against 36.1 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 4.9 GW of net imports. Wind provides a solid 15.1 GW combined (onshore 11.9 GW, offshore 3.2 GW), and together with 3.8 GW biomass and 1.3 GW hydro lifts the renewable share to 56.2%. Thermal baseload remains substantial, with brown coal at 5.3 GW, natural gas at 7.2 GW, and hard coal at 3.3 GW — reflecting both contracted must-run obligations and the merit-order economics of a 151.4 EUR/MWh clearing price. The elevated overnight price likely reflects tight capacity margins across central Europe and limited interconnector availability, conditions that keep all dispatchable units in merit.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless canopy of coal-smoke and August cloud, the turbines turn their tireless hymn while furnaces burn to close the gap between what the wind can give and what the sleeping nation demands.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 15%
56%
Renewable share
15.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.1 GW
Total generation
4.9 GW
Net import
151.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.2°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
287
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 5.3 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting pale steam plumes into the blackness; natural gas 7.2 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks glowing faintly from internal combustion light; hard coal 3.3 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with conveyor belts and a squat chimney trailing dark smoke; wind onshore 11.9 GW spans the entire right third and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking rhythmically against the sky; wind offshore 3.2 GW is suggested by a distant line of turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea; biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single moderate stack emitting light grey vapour, positioned between the gas plant and the coal station; hydro 1.3 GW is rendered as a concrete dam spillway in the lower-left foreground with water catching reflections of sodium-orange industrial light. The sky is entirely black with 100% cloud cover — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow — a heavy, oppressive, low overcast ceiling reflecting faint amber light pollution from the industrial installations below. The air feels warm and humid at 16°C; summer foliage on deciduous trees in the mid-ground is lush and dark green, barely visible except where illuminated by facility floodlights. Sodium streetlights line a road crossing the foreground. The overall atmosphere is dense, weighty, and industrial, conveying the tension of a high-price night. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts, Caspar David Friedrich's sense of the sublime applied to an industrial nocturne — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 19 August 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-19T00:20 UTC · Download image