Grid Poet — 29 August 2026, 20:00
Wind leads at 14.3 GW combined, but 23.2 GW net imports are needed as solar is absent and demand is high.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Total domestic generation of 23.6 GW covers only about half of the 46.8 GW consumption, requiring approximately 23.2 GW of net imports. Wind onshore at 12.0 GW is the dominant source, supplemented by 2.3 GW offshore, while solar contributes nothing at this evening hour under full overcast. Brown coal provides 3.0 GW of baseload, with biomass at 3.8 GW and smaller contributions from hydro, hard coal, and natural gas. The day-ahead price of 194.8 EUR/MWh reflects the tight domestic supply-demand balance and heavy reliance on imports, consistent with a summer evening where post-sunset demand remains elevated but renewable output—particularly solar—has dropped to zero.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines spin their restless hymn across the blackened August plain, while distant furnaces breathe lignite fire into a sky that swallows every star. Across the borders, borrowed current flows like rivers seeking the sea, filling the void that daylight left behind.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 51%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 0%
Biomass 16%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 13%
82%
Renewable share
14.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
23.6 GW
Total generation
23.2 GW
Net import
194.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.3°C / 19 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
137
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.0 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling green hills, blades visibly turning in moderate wind; biomass 3.8 GW appears in the centre-right as a cluster of modest industrial buildings with wood-chip conveyors and short stacks emitting pale steam; brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the left quarter as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes and an adjacent conveyor-fed boiler house; wind offshore 2.3 GW is suggested at the far-right horizon as faint silhouettes of turbines standing in dark water; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete dam with illuminated spillway in the centre-left valley; hard coal 0.7 GW is a single modest stack with a thin grey exhaust beside the brown coal plant; natural gas 0.5 GW is a small compact CCGT unit with a single slender exhaust stack near the coal complex. The scene is set at 20:00 on a late-August night: the sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight glow remaining, 100% cloud cover obscuring all stars. The landscape is lit only by sodium-orange streetlights along a road, warm yellow-white industrial lighting on the power plants, and the faint glow of windows in a distant village. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, thick humid air pressing down, hinting at the high electricity price. Lush late-summer vegetation—dark green deciduous trees, tall grass—rendered in shadow, temperature a warm 21°C. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, with rich dark tones, visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, and meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 29 August 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-08-29T18:20 UTC · Download image