Grid Poet — 14 September 2026, 18:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as wind collapses and fading solar drives massive imports at 400 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Domestic generation of 36.3 GW covers only 61% of the 59.0 GW consumption, requiring approximately 22.7 GW of net imports. Wind output is exceptionally low at 1.6 GW combined, and solar is fading late in the afternoon with only 5.4 GW under partly cloudy skies. Brown coal leads the domestic generation stack at 10.7 GW, followed by natural gas at 8.4 GW and hard coal at 5.0 GW, bringing the renewable share to 33.4%. The day-ahead price of 400.1 EUR/MWh reflects the extreme tightness of supply conditions driven by negligible wind, waning solar, and heavy reliance on imports and thermal dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines stand breathless in the amber dusk, their blades frozen against a sky choked with the exhale of lignite. Somewhere beyond the border, foreign generators strain to fill the void this windless evening has carved into the grid.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 15%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 23%
Hard coal 14%
Brown coal 30%
33%
Renewable share
1.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
5.4 GW
Solar
36.3 GW
Total generation
22.7 GW
Net import
400.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.1°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
58.0% / 64.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
460
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.7 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast complex of hyperbolic cooling towers rising against the sky, thick white-grey steam plumes drifting heavily in still air; natural gas 8.4 GW fills the centre-left as a cluster of modern CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting shimmering heat; hard coal 5.0 GW appears centre-right as a dark industrial block with conveyor belts, square chimneys, and coal stockpiles; solar 5.4 GW occupies the right foreground as rows of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels catching the last weak amber-orange light on their surfaces; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-ground facility with cylindrical silos and wood-chip storage; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a modest dam and spillway structure in the far right middle distance; wind onshore 0.7 GW and wind offshore 0.9 GW are shown as a small handful of three-blade turbines on lattice towers in the far background, blades completely still in the calm air. The sky is a dusk scene at 18:00 in September — the sun has dropped low, painting a narrow band of deep orange-red along the lower horizon while the upper sky darkens to steel blue-grey; 58% cloud cover creates layered stratus formations that trap and diffuse the fading light oppressively. The atmosphere is heavy and brooding, conveying the tension of extreme electricity prices — a thick, hazy quality hangs over the entire industrial panorama. Late-summer vegetation with green but slightly tired deciduous trees frames the foreground. Temperature is warm at 21°C, with no wind motion in foliage or smoke plumes — everything hangs vertically. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto colour, visible deliberate brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every cooling tower, turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, and exhaust stack. The industrial sublime: a monumental landscape of human energy infrastructure at the edge of evening. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 14 September 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-14T16:20 UTC · Download image