Grid Poet — 18 September 2026, 02:00
Wind leads at 22.4 GW with 10.2 GW brown coal baseload on a fully overcast September night.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 on a mild September night, German generation of 44.1 GW slightly exceeds consumption of 43.4 GW, yielding a modest net export of 0.7 GW. Wind is the dominant source at a combined 22.4 GW (onshore 16.7, offshore 5.7), while brown coal provides a substantial 10.2 GW baseload and hard coal adds 3.1 GW, together accounting for 30% of supply. The day-ahead price of 129.5 EUR/MWh is notably elevated for a nighttime hour; this likely reflects tight forward conditions, high gas and carbon prices, or anticipated scarcity in neighbouring markets rather than domestic stress. Renewables reach 62.4% of generation, a solid overnight figure driven entirely by wind and supplemented by 3.8 GW biomass and 1.3 GW hydro, with solar naturally absent.
Grid poem Claude AI
Turbines hum their restless hymn across the blackened plain, while lignite towers exhale pale ghosts into the starless rain.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 13%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 23%
62%
Renewable share
22.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
44.1 GW
Total generation
+0.7 GW
Net export
129.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.4°C / 11 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
279
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers stretching across rolling central German hills, blades slowly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.7 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly visible sea line; brown coal 10.2 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station complex with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps; hard coal 3.1 GW sits adjacent as a smaller coal plant with a single tall smokestack and visible coal conveyor infrastructure; natural gas 3.3 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a slim exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, positioned centre-left; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a rounded dome digester and a short flue, nestled between the coal and gas facilities; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small dam structure with spillway visible in a river valley in the centre-right middle ground. Time is 02:00 — the sky is completely black with no twilight, no stars visible due to 100% overcast cloud cover creating a low oppressive ceiling faintly reflecting the amber industrial glow from below. Temperature is mild at 13.4°C; late-summer vegetation — dark green deciduous trees with the earliest hints of autumn — lines the foreground meadow. The atmosphere feels heavy and dense, reflecting the high electricity price: a brooding, weighty industrial night. All facility lights glow amber and white, casting reflections on wet-looking ground from recent drizzle. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich, dark palette of deep navy, coal black, warm amber, and cool grey-white steam; visible impasto brushwork; dramatic chiaroscuro between dark sky and lit industrial complexes; meticulous engineering detail on turbine nacelles, cooling tower ribbing, and conveyor structures; atmospheric aerial perspective with distant offshore turbines fading into the murky horizon. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 18 September 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-18T00:20 UTC · Download image