Grid Poet — 16 September 2026, 08:00
Brown coal leads at 11.6 GW; full overcast and light winds drive 14.2 GW net imports and a 225 EUR/MWh price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid is drawing on a broad mix of sources this morning, with domestic generation of 46.8 GW falling roughly 14.2 GW short of the 61.0 GW consumption level, necessitating net imports of approximately 14.2 GW. Brown coal leads all sources at 11.6 GW, followed by solar at 8.6 GW — though notably the overcast conditions with zero direct radiation indicate this output comes entirely from diffuse irradiance, which limits further upside. Wind contributes a combined 9.5 GW onshore and offshore, a moderate but unremarkable level consistent with the light 7.3 km/h winds observed. The day-ahead price of 225 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance: thermal plants including 5.3 GW hard coal and 6.6 GW gas are fully dispatched, and the substantial import requirement is pulling prices well above typical mid-range levels.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky the old furnaces breathe their ancient carbon hymn, while pale diffuse light struggles through cloud to touch silicon fields that answer only in whispers. The grid reaches beyond its borders, hungry, drawing power through copper veins as the price of morning climbs.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 18%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 25%
50%
Renewable share
9.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.6 GW
Solar
46.8 GW
Total generation
14.2 GW
Net import
225.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.2°C / 7 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
357
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into an oppressively overcast sky; natural gas 6.6 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 5.3 GW sits behind them as a traditional coal plant with a large rectangular boiler house and twin chimneys trailing faint grey smoke; wind onshore 7.6 GW stretches across the centre-right as a line of large three-blade turbines on lattice towers, blades turning lazily in light wind; wind offshore 1.9 GW appears as distant smaller turbines on the far right horizon above a grey river estuary; solar 8.6 GW is rendered as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground, their surfaces reflecting only flat grey light with no sun glare or shadows; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a modest wood-chip power station with a cylindrical silo and short stack near the solar field; hydro 1.0 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible along a river in the middle distance. The time is 08:00 on a September morning — full daylight but entirely diffuse, no direct sunlight, 100% cloud cover creating a uniform heavy grey-white sky pressing down on the landscape. The atmosphere feels dense and oppressive, conveying high electricity prices. Vegetation is late-summer green beginning to show early autumn yellows at the edges, consistent with 17°C. The landscape is a gently rolling German plain. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — with rich earth tones, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, PV panel frame, and smokestack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 16 September 2026, 08:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-16T06:20 UTC · Download image