Grid Poet — 25 August 2026, 00:00
Wind onshore and brown coal anchor overnight supply as net imports of 2.8 GW cover residual demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midnight on a late-August night, German consumption sits at 42.3 GW against 39.5 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 2.8 GW of net imports. Wind onshore contributes a solid 14.3 GW, making renewables responsible for just over half of supply at 50.6%, while the thermal base is carried by brown coal at 9.5 GW, natural gas at 5.1 GW, and hard coal at 4.9 GW. The day-ahead price of 152.3 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, reflecting the import requirement combined with the need for substantial fossil dispatch despite decent wind availability. Biomass provides a steady 4.1 GW and hydro adds 1.2 GW, rounding out a diversified but thermally dependent generation stack.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines turn in the blind summer dark, their blades cutting invisible arcs above cooling towers that exhale pale ghosts into the overcast void. Beneath the coal-heavy sky, the grid draws breath from distant borders, its hunger outpacing the midnight offering of wind and fire.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 24%
51%
Renewable share
14.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
39.5 GW
Total generation
2.8 GW
Net import
152.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.3°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
81.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
354
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 14.3 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, rotors visibly spinning in moderate wind; brown coal 9.5 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting; natural gas 5.1 GW appears center-left as two compact CCGT units with slim exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.9 GW sits adjacent as a blocky coal-fired plant with a single large smokestack and coal conveyors faintly illuminated; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial biomass facility with a rounded silo and wood-chip storage yard under floodlights; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small dam structure in the far middle distance with water faintly reflecting artificial light; wind offshore 0.4 GW is a faint cluster of turbines barely visible on a distant dark horizon line. The time is midnight: the sky is completely black to deep navy with no twilight, no sky glow, heavy 81% cloud cover obscuring all stars, creating a low oppressive ceiling reflecting the 152.3 EUR/MWh price tension. The landscape is central German rolling terrain with late-summer dark green vegetation barely discernible. All illumination comes from sodium streetlights along a road in the foreground, amber and white floodlights on the industrial facilities, and glowing control-room windows. Steam from the cooling towers rises into the black overcast, faintly backlit orange. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette dominated by deep blues, blacks, and warm sodium ambers, visible confident brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth with industrial haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and CCGT exhaust stack. The mood is heavy, industrious, nocturnal. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 25 August 2026, 00:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-24T22:20 UTC · Download image