Grid Poet — 8 September 2026, 18:00
Wind leads at 14.8 GW combined but 31.4 GW net imports needed as solar fades and evening demand peaks.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on a warm late-summer evening, solar generation has effectively ceased while onshore wind provides a strong 12.2 GW, making it the single largest domestic source. Total domestic generation of 27.7 GW falls well short of 59.1 GW consumption, requiring approximately 31.4 GW of net imports — a substantial figure reflecting the evening demand peak coinciding with the loss of solar output. Thermal generation is elevated, with brown coal at 5.3 GW, hard coal at 2.1 GW, and gas at 1.2 GW, collectively contributing 8.6 GW. The day-ahead price of 200.6 EUR/MWh is consistent with a tight supply picture during the evening ramp, driven by high cooling loads from 27.4 °C temperatures and heavy import dependence across interconnectors.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun has fled and left the turbines spinning alone against a copper sky, their blades carving prayers into the humid dusk. Below, the lignite towers exhale ancient carbon like tired sentinels, while the grid drinks deep from distant foreign wells.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 19%
69%
Renewable share
14.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.7 GW
Total generation
31.4 GW
Net import
200.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.4°C / 23 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
52.0% / 132.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
237
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of large three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers stretching across rolling green late-summer hills, blades visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 2.6 GW appears in the far distance as a cluster of offshore turbines barely visible on a hazy horizon line beyond a river valley; brown coal 5.3 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white-grey steam plumes drifting eastward, beside open-pit excavation terraces in ochre and brown earth; hard coal 2.1 GW sits just right of the lignite complex as a single large stack emitting a thinner grey plume beside a conveyor belt and coal bunker; biomass 3.4 GW appears as a mid-ground cluster of modest industrial buildings with wooden chip storage piles and low cylindrical digesters with small exhaust vents releasing faint vapour; natural gas 1.2 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT unit with a single tall polished exhaust stack and slim vapour trail, positioned between the coal complex and the wind turbines; hydro 0.8 GW is visible as a small dam and spillway in a wooded side valley at far right. Time is 18:00 dusk in early September — the sky is a deep gradient from warm orange-red at the low western horizon fading through amber to darkening steel-blue overhead, with broken clouds at 52 percent cover catching the last copper light. The atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, almost electric, reflecting extreme electricity prices — the air is thick and hazy from 27.4 °C summer heat, vegetation is lush dark green but slightly wilted. High-voltage transmission pylons and cables cross the mid-ground, symbolising the massive power flows arriving from beyond the frame. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower flute, and smokestack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 8 September 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-08T16:20 UTC · Download image