Grid Poet — 23 August 2026, 00:00
Wind dominates at 21.4 GW overnight while coal and gas provide 11.1 GW of thermal baseload.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midnight on a late-August night, wind generation dominates the German grid at 21.4 GW combined (onshore 14.9 GW, offshore 6.5 GW), delivering a 70.6% renewable share despite zero solar contribution. Thermal baseload remains significant, with brown coal at 5.1 GW, natural gas at 3.8 GW, and hard coal at 2.2 GW providing the conventional backbone. The system is running a modest net import of approximately 0.6 GW to cover the gap between 37.8 GW domestic generation and 38.4 GW consumption. The day-ahead price of 132.7 EUR/MWh is elevated for this level of renewable penetration, likely reflecting tight interconnector capacity, high gas input costs, and the residual thermal plant setting the marginal price.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades carve the August dark, their breath nearly enough to quench the nation's thirst. Yet lignite fires smolder on, ancient carbon glowing beneath a sky too clear to hide them.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 40%
Wind offshore 17%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 13%
71%
Renewable share
21.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
37.8 GW
Total generation
0.7 GW
Net import
132.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.8°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
2.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
204
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 14.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across dark rolling hills, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 6.5 GW appears in the far right background as a distant cluster of turbines on a dark sea horizon, their red aviation warning lights blinking. Brown coal 5.1 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes illuminated from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting. Natural gas 3.8 GW sits in the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with single tall exhaust stacks and faint heat shimmer, lit by floodlights. Hard coal 2.2 GW appears as a smaller coal plant behind the gas units, with a single smokestack and conveyor belt visible under arc lights. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded silo and wood-chip storage yard in the centre, warmly lit. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small dam structure with spillway in the lower left, water catching reflected industrial light. The sky is completely black with a deep navy tone at the zenith, no twilight, no glow on the horizon — pure midnight darkness. Stars are faintly visible through a nearly cloudless sky (2% cloud cover). The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, with a faint industrial haze hanging over the thermal plants, reflecting the high electricity price. Late-summer vegetation — dark green deciduous trees and dry grass — is barely visible in the ambient glow. Temperature of 12.8°C suggested by slight mist forming near the ground. Style: 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 with visible confident brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the black sky and the warm industrial glow, atmospheric depth receding into darkness, meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, cooling tower geometry, and CCGT exhaust stacks. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 23 August 2026, 00:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-22T22:20 UTC · Download image