Grid Poet — 28 August 2026, 04:00
Strong overnight wind drives 64.8% renewable share; brown coal and gas hold baseload as Germany net-exports 3 GW.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 04:00 on a warm late-August night, onshore wind at 20.3 GW dominates generation, complemented by 3.3 GW offshore wind, yielding a combined 23.6 GW from wind alone. Baseload thermal generation remains substantial: brown coal provides 7.4 GW, natural gas 4.4 GW, and hard coal 3.7 GW, together accounting for 35.2% of the 44.1 GW total. With consumption at 41.1 GW, the system is in net export of approximately 3.0 GW. The day-ahead price of 139.1 EUR/MWh is notably elevated for a nighttime hour with strong renewables and net export, suggesting either tight conditions on interconnected markets, high gas prices feeding through to marginal cost, or congestion limiting export capacity.
Grid poem Claude AI
The coal furnaces breathe their ancient breath beneath a starless, overcast sky, while invisible blades carve the warm August wind into rivers of light that flow beyond the border. A nation sleeps, and the grid hums its restless vigil at the seam between surplus and cost.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 46%
Wind offshore 8%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 17%
65%
Renewable share
23.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
44.1 GW
Total generation
+2.9 GW
Net export
139.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.2°C / 22 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
250
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 20.3 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles, blades visibly spinning in strong wind, receding in rows across dark rolling hills. Brown coal 7.4 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the black sky, lit from below by orange sodium lights from an industrial complex. Natural gas 4.4 GW appears left-centre as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, its metal structures illuminated by harsh floodlights. Hard coal 3.7 GW sits beside the brown coal facility as a smaller power station with a single tall chimney and conveyor belts faintly visible under industrial lighting. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed plant with a modest smokestack and warm amber-lit windows in a low rectangular building. Offshore wind 3.3 GW is suggested on the far-right horizon as a faint line of red aircraft-warning lights blinking above an unseen sea. Hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small dam spillway in the lower foreground, water faintly reflecting industrial glow. The sky is completely black and overcast at 04:00 — no moon, no stars, no twilight, no sky glow — a dense 100% cloud ceiling presses down heavily creating an oppressive, close atmosphere reflecting the high 139.1 EUR/MWh price. The warm 21°C late-summer night shows lush dark-green foliage on foreground trees, leaves rustling vigorously in 22 km/h wind. Foreground grass sways. The only illumination comes from sodium-orange and white-blue industrial lighting, glowing control-room windows, and red blinking aviation lights atop turbine nacelles. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts, atmospheric sfumato in the steam plumes, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack — evoking Caspar David Friedrich's sublime darkness married to industrial precision. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 28 August 2026, 04:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-28T02:20 UTC · Download image