Grid Poet — 10 September 2026, 22:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate a wind-poor, solar-absent night requiring ~12.9 GW of net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 22:00 on a mild September evening, Germany draws 50.1 GW against only 37.2 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 12.9 GW of net imports. Thermal plants dominate: brown coal leads at 11.6 GW, followed by natural gas at 10.1 GW and hard coal at 5.9 GW, together accounting for 74% of domestic output. Renewables contribute just 9.6 GW (25.9%), with solar offline after dark and onshore wind nearly stalled at 1.6 GW in 3 km/h winds; offshore wind at 2.7 GW and biomass at 4.1 GW provide steady but modest baseload support. The day-ahead price of 225.1 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance, heavy reliance on expensive marginal gas-fired units, and substantial import dependence during this evening demand period.
Grid poem Claude AI
The coal fires burn beneath a starless vault, their towers exhaling pale ghosts into the windless night. Across darkened borders, borrowed current hums through silent wires, feeding a nation the wind forgot to serve.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 7%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 27%
Hard coal 16%
Brown coal 31%
26%
Renewable share
4.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
37.2 GW
Total generation
13.0 GW
Net import
225.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.3°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
20.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
507
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.6 GW occupies the left third of the scene as a massive complex of hyperbolic cooling towers, each emitting thick pale steam plumes rising into the black sky, with glowing orange-lit conveyor belts feeding lignite into boiler houses; natural gas 10.1 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks, each topped with small heat-shimmer plumes, their turbine halls illuminated by sodium-yellow industrial floodlights; hard coal 5.9 GW appears centre-right as a pair of smaller conventional coal plants with rectangular stacks and coal bunkers lit by harsh white security lighting; biomass 4.1 GW sits to the right as a cluster of cylindrical digesters and smaller stacks with faint warm light spilling from control rooms; offshore wind 2.7 GW appears in the far background right as a distant line of barely turning three-blade turbines, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the darkness over a sliver of black sea; onshore wind 1.6 GW shows as a few nearly motionless turbines on a low ridge, blades barely discernible, red nacelle lights steady; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam structure at far right with white water illuminated from below. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, with a thin crescent moon barely visible through 20% scattered cloud, stars faintly showing in clear patches. The air feels heavy and oppressive, conveying the 225 EUR/MWh price tension — a brooding industrial atmosphere. Autumn vegetation is muted, dark, leaves just beginning to turn. The foreground is a plowed field reflecting faint industrial glow. Everything rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the deep night sky and the sodium-lit industrial facilities, atmospheric depth with haze and steam catching artificial light, meticulous engineering detail on every cooling tower, turbine nacelle, and exhaust stack, evoking Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial sublime. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 10 September 2026, 22:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-10T20:20 UTC · Download image