Grid Poet — 15 September 2026, 20:00
Brown coal and gas dominate evening generation while 17.4 GW of net imports cover a large supply gap at high prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 20:00 on a mild September evening, German generation totals 40.5 GW against consumption of 57.9 GW, requiring net imports of approximately 17.4 GW. Solar has dropped to zero after sunset, and onshore wind contributes a modest 7.0 GW with offshore adding 3.1 GW, yielding a renewable share of 38.2%. Brown coal leads thermal dispatch at 12.0 GW, supplemented by natural gas at 8.7 GW and hard coal at 4.3 GW, reflecting a tight domestic supply picture. The day-ahead price of 253.9 EUR/MWh is elevated but consistent with a high-import evening hour where domestic thermal capacity is largely exhausted and cross-border flows are commanding a premium.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun has fled and left the furnaces to speak, their molten tongues licking a sky too dark to answer. Across the borders, borrowed light flows in like a river of debt, feeding the insatiable hum of fifty-eight gigawatts.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 8%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 30%
38%
Renewable share
10.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
40.5 GW
Total generation
17.3 GW
Net import
253.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.0°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
9.0% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
428
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 12.0 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast complex of hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the night sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 8.7 GW fills the centre-left as a cluster of modern CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, their turbine halls glowing with interior light; wind onshore 7.0 GW spans the centre-right as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the black sky, blades turning slowly in light wind; hard coal 4.3 GW appears as a dark industrial complex with conveyor belts and a single large smokestack on the right; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a small chimney and a warm-lit storage hall beside it; wind offshore 3.1 GW is visible in the far distance as faint red lights dotting the horizon over a dark sea glimpsed between foreground structures; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small dam spillway at far right with floodlights reflecting off rushing water. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no twilight glow, no moon, stars barely visible through a thin 9% haze. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 253.9 EUR/MWh price — a brooding, weighty industrial panorama. Late summer vegetation — full-canopied deciduous trees and tall grass — is visible in silhouette at the edges, still lush green where caught by artificial light. Temperature is a warm 22°C, conveyed by a humid haze clinging to the ground. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between artificial light and surrounding darkness, atmospheric aerial perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 15 September 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-15T18:20 UTC · Download image