Grid Poet — 28 August 2026, 08:00
Wind leads at 19.8 GW but full cloud cover suppresses solar, driving coal dispatch and 5.5 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 08:00 on a fully overcast August morning, the German grid draws 57.0 GW against 51.5 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 5.5 GW of net imports. Wind leads the generation mix at 19.8 GW combined (onshore 16.7, offshore 3.1), while solar contributes only 9.5 GW—well below its late-August potential—owing to complete cloud cover and near-zero direct irradiance. Thermal baseload remains substantial: brown coal at 7.9 GW, hard coal at 4.1 GW, and natural gas at 4.9 GW together provide 16.9 GW, reflecting the need to compensate for suppressed solar output. The day-ahead price of 169.5 EUR/MWh is elevated but consistent with a morning ramp period under heavy cloud, where imports and dispatchable coal and gas units set the marginal price.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky the turbines churn like silver sentinels holding back the dark, while coal furnaces breathe their ancient breath to fill the gap the hidden sun has left. The grid groans softly, buying power from beyond the borders, as clouds press down like a weight upon the land.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 18%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 15%
67%
Renewable share
19.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.5 GW
Solar
51.5 GW
Total generation
5.5 GW
Net import
169.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.1°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 3.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
231
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.7 GW dominates the right half and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, blades turning steadily in moderate wind. Brown coal 7.9 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the heavy sky. Solar 9.5 GW appears in the center-left midground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels, their surfaces dark and unreflective under the overcast. Natural gas 4.9 GW sits center-right as two compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 4.1 GW appears left-center as a coal-fired station with a rectangular boiler house and a single large smokestack. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip plant with a conical fuel silo near the center. Wind offshore 3.1 GW is visible on the far-right horizon as a line of turbines rising from a distant grey sea. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small dam and penstock structure nestled in a valley on the far left. The sky is completely overcast with thick, low stratocumulus clouds in tones of slate grey and pewter, creating a heavy, oppressive atmosphere—no sunlight breaks through, direct radiation is near zero. Lighting is diffuse full daylight of a deeply clouded August morning, soft and shadowless. The landscape is lush late-summer green with mature deciduous trees in full leaf. The air feels humid and warm at 20 °C. The atmosphere conveys economic tension through the brooding, pressing cloud ceiling. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich, saturated earth tones, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze between layers—yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, rotor hubs, cooling tower parabolic profiles, PV cell grid lines. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 28 August 2026, 08:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-28T06:20 UTC · Download image