Grid Poet — 22 August 2026, 06:00
Wind and lignite anchor a 32.9 GW supply under full overcast, with 6.8 GW net imports filling the gap to 39.7 GW demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 06:00 on a fully overcast August morning, German consumption of 39.7 GW exceeds domestic generation of 32.9 GW, requiring approximately 6.8 GW of net imports. Wind generation is solid at 13.1 GW combined (onshore 9.0, offshore 4.1), but solar contributes a negligible 0.4 GW under complete cloud cover at dawn. Thermal baseload is substantial, with brown coal at 7.4 GW, hard coal at 3.9 GW, and gas at 2.8 GW collectively providing 14.1 GW—reflecting the need to compensate for absent solar and meet early-morning demand ramp. The day-ahead price of 153.9 EUR/MWh is elevated, consistent with tight supply-demand conditions and high marginal-cost thermal dispatch during a period of limited solar availability.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky where dawn refuses to break, the coal fires burn like old wounds in the earth's bruised flesh. The turbines turn their slow prayers into the grey wind, but the grid still hungers for more than the morning can give.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 12%
Solar 1%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 22%
57%
Renewable share
13.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.4 GW
Solar
32.9 GW
Total generation
6.7 GW
Net import
153.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.1°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
314
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.4 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into a heavy overcast sky; hard coal 3.9 GW appears just right of centre-left as a smaller coal plant with rectangular chimneys and dark exhaust; wind onshore 9.0 GW spans the entire middle-ground and right half as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers receding across a gently rolling central German landscape, rotors turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 4.1 GW is suggested in the far background right as a line of turbines along a distant hazy horizon; biomass 3.7 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single moderate stack with pale exhaust, positioned centre-right; natural gas 2.8 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and attached heat recovery unit, placed between the coal and wind installations; hydro 1.6 GW is a small dam structure with spillway visible in a valley at far right; solar 0.4 GW is represented by a tiny cluster of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels barely visible near the biomass plant, their surfaces dark and unreflective under the overcast. Time is 06:00 dawn in August: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm colours—only cold pre-dawn diffusion filtered through 100% cloud cover. The atmosphere is heavy, oppressive, and close, reflecting the high electricity price; low-hanging clouds press down on the cooling towers. Temperature is cool at 14°C; summer vegetation is lush and dark green but muted in the dim light, with dew on grass. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich's brooding atmosphere combined with meticulous industrial-engineering accuracy—rich dark colour palette of slate grey, deep blue, forest green, and warm amber from sodium lights on the plant structures. Visible brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 22 August 2026, 06:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-22T04:20 UTC · Download image