Grid Poet — 18 September 2026, 06:00
Wind leads at 21.4 GW but zero solar and high demand drive 9.8 GW net imports and elevated prices.
Back
← older newer →
Grid analysis Claude AI
At 06:00 on a fully overcast September morning, solar output is zero and wind delivers a strong 21.4 GW combined (onshore 15.8, offshore 5.6), establishing it as the single largest generation source. Dispatchable thermal plants are running firmly: brown coal at 10.3 GW, natural gas at 3.8 GW, and hard coal at 3.1 GW, reflecting the need to cover the 9.8 GW gap between domestic generation (43.5 GW) and consumption (53.3 GW), with roughly 9.8 GW of net imports balancing the system. The day-ahead price at 186 EUR/MWh is elevated, consistent with the combination of high morning demand ramp-up, zero solar, full thermal dispatch, and significant import dependence. The 60.6% renewable share is respectable for a sunless dawn, carried almost entirely by wind and supplemented by 3.8 GW biomass and 1.2 GW hydro.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky where no sun dares to rise, the turbines howl their hymn while coal fires smolder in the half-light, and the grid strains to bridge the chasm between what the land can give and what the nation demands. Dawn withholds its warmth, and the price of power burns in its place.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 13%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 24%
61%
Renewable share
21.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
43.5 GW
Total generation
9.8 GW
Net import
186.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.1°C / 14 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
290
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.3 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into heavy overcast skies; wind onshore 15.8 GW fills the right half as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills, their rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears on the far right horizon as a row of turbines standing in a grey North Sea glimpsed through a valley gap; natural gas 3.8 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.1 GW appears just left of centre as a single large power station with a tall rectangular boiler house and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial plant with a rounded silo and short stack with pale exhaust; hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete dam with a spillway visible in the lower centre foreground beside a river. The sky is dawn at 06:00 in September — deep blue-grey pre-dawn light with no direct sunlight, the first faint pale luminosity on the eastern horizon beneath a completely overcast 100% cloud blanket, heavy and oppressive atmosphere reflecting the 186 EUR/MWh price. Temperature 13°C: early autumn vegetation, dew on grass, leaves beginning to turn amber at their edges. No solar panels anywhere. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, dark, atmospheric palette of slate blues, umber browns, and muted greens, visible textured brushwork, dramatic tonal depth — yet every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and gas-turbine exhaust stack is rendered with precise engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 18 September 2026, 06:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-18T04:20 UTC · Download image