Grid Poet — 13 September 2026, 06:00
Wind onshore leads at 12.1 GW alongside 11.6 GW of coal under full overcast with no solar, requiring 7.3 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 06:00 on a fully overcast September morning, German generation totals 32.8 GW against 40.1 GW consumption, requiring approximately 7.3 GW of net imports. Wind onshore at 12.1 GW is the single largest source, complemented by 2.3 GW offshore, but solar contributes nothing at this pre-sunrise hour under complete cloud cover. Brown coal at 7.7 GW and hard coal at 3.9 GW together provide 11.6 GW of baseload thermal generation, while gas runs modestly at 2.0 GW. The day-ahead price of 0.0 EUR/MWh is notably low given the import requirement, likely reflecting broader European market conditions or negative-price spillover from overnight wind generation in neighboring systems.
Grid poem Claude AI
Before the sun can breach the leaden veil, coal furnaces breathe their ancient breath while turbines carve the grey September gale—a nation waking caught between wind and earth. The price of power falls to nothing, a ghost number on the exchange, as if the grid itself has forgotten what it costs to keep the darkness at bay.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 37%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 0%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 23%
59%
Renewable share
14.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
32.8 GW
Total generation
7.3 GW
Net import
—
Day-ahead price
14.9°C / 13 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
310
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.1 GW dominates the right half of the composition as dozens of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling central German hills, blades turning steadily in moderate wind; brown coal 7.7 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the grey sky; hard coal 3.9 GW appears left of centre as a smaller coal plant with rectangular boiler houses, tall square chimneys, and coal conveyor belts; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized biomass CHP plants with rounded wood-chip silos and modest steam stacks nestled among trees in the mid-ground; wind offshore 2.3 GW is glimpsed as distant turbines on the far horizon through haze; natural gas 2.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single polished exhaust stack and air-cooled condenser near the coal complex; hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible along a river in the foreground valley. Time is early dawn at 06:00 in mid-September: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no sun disc visible, full 100% cloud cover forming a heavy uniform stratus layer pressing low over the landscape. No solar panels anywhere—zero solar generation. Temperature around 15°C: vegetation is late-summer green beginning to hint at early autumn, dew on grass, mist pooling in the river valley. The 0.0 EUR/MWh price is evoked by a calm, still, almost eerily quiet atmosphere despite the industrial activity. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich, moody palette of slate blues, iron greys, mossy greens, and warm amber from scattered sodium lights on the industrial facilities; visible impasto brushwork in the clouds and steam; atmospheric aerial perspective creating depth from the foreground river through the mid-ground plants to the distant wind turbines vanishing into overcast haze. Meticulous engineering accuracy on all technology: lattice-and-tubular tower details, three-blade rotor geometry, cooling tower parabolic curves, conveyor gantries. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.
Grid data: 13 September 2026, 06:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-13T04:20 UTC · Download image