Grid Poet — 14 September 2026, 20:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate as wind and solar fail, driving extreme prices and heavy net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at 20:00 on a September evening faces a significant supply shortfall, with domestic generation of 33.9 GW covering only 60% of the 56.9 GW consumption, requiring approximately 23.0 GW of net imports. The post-sunset hour yields zero solar output, and near-calm winds (2.5 km/h) limit combined wind generation to just 2.1 GW, pushing the renewable share to 22.3% with biomass and hydro providing the bulk of that. Thermal baseload dominates: brown coal leads at 11.1 GW, followed by natural gas at 9.6 GW and hard coal at 5.7 GW, reflecting full dispatch of available conventional capacity. The day-ahead price at 526.1 EUR/MWh is exceptionally elevated, consistent with tight supply conditions across interconnected European markets during a period of low renewable availability and high evening demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines stand mute beneath a windless, starlit vault, while ancient coal fires roar to fill the silence left by sun and gale. A kingdom of demand cries out across darkened borders, and the price of light climbs like smoke into the indifferent night.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 4%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 28%
Hard coal 17%
Brown coal 33%
22%
Renewable share
2.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
33.9 GW
Total generation
23.0 GW
Net import
526.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.2°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
7.0% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
533
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.1 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station complex with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the night sky; natural gas 9.6 GW occupies the centre-left as a row of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks glowing with orange sodium lighting; hard coal 5.7 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with a single large smokestack and coal conveyor belts illuminated by industrial floodlights; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized biomass CHP plants with wood-chip storage domes and modest chimneys, lit from within by warm amber light, placed right of centre; wind onshore 0.8 GW and wind offshore 1.3 GW appear as a small group of barely visible three-blade turbines on distant hills and a few offshore turbines on the far horizon, their rotors completely still in the dead-calm air; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small dam structure in the far right background with illuminated spillway. The sky is completely dark, a deep navy-black with scattered stars visible through 7% cloud cover, absolutely no twilight or sky glow — it is fully nighttime at 20:00 in September. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the extreme electricity price: a faint industrial haze hangs over the scene, diffusing the sodium-yellow and white artificial lights of the power stations. Late-summer vegetation — dark green deciduous trees and dry grasses — is barely visible at the edges, consistent with 19.2°C. Transmission towers with high-voltage lines stretch across the composition, cables glinting under facility lights, symbolizing the massive import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the black sky and the glowing industrial facilities, atmospheric depth with haze receding into darkness, meticulous engineering detail on every cooling tower, turbine nacelle, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 14 September 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-14T18:20 UTC · Download image