Grid Poet — 20 September 2026, 00:00
Strong overnight wind drives 35 GW of generation, creating a 9.9 GW net export with prices at 15.8 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midnight, strong onshore wind at 28.6 GW and offshore wind at 6.4 GW dominate the generation mix, delivering a combined 35.0 GW and pushing the renewable share to 79.9%. With total generation at 50.1 GW against consumption of 40.2 GW, Germany is net exporting approximately 9.9 GW to neighboring markets. The day-ahead price of 15.8 EUR/MWh reflects this comfortable oversupply, though brown coal at 3.6 GW, hard coal at 2.3 GW, and natural gas at 4.1 GW remain online, likely constrained by must-run obligations or contractual positions. Biomass contributes a steady 3.9 GW baseload while hydro adds 1.2 GW.
Grid poem Claude AI
A midnight gale turns ten thousand blades into a river of invisible light, flooding the wires with more than the sleeping nation can drink. The coal towers breathe their stubborn plumes into cloud-dark skies, sentinels of an old order standing watch beside the wind.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 57%
Wind offshore 13%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 7%
80%
Renewable share
34.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
50.1 GW
Total generation
+9.8 GW
Net export
15.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.9°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
80.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
134
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 28.6 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with lattice towers stretching across rolling central German hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind. Wind offshore 6.4 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller, sleeker turbines visible on the far-right horizon beyond a dark coastline. Brown coal 3.6 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium industrial lights. Natural gas 4.1 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with a tall single exhaust stack venting a thin heat shimmer, illuminated by facility floodlights. Hard coal 2.3 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a rectangular boiler house and single smokestack beside the brown coal complex. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a domed digester and short stack emitting faint vapour, positioned centre-left behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small concrete dam structure with a modest reservoir glinting in artificial light on the far left. The time is midnight: the sky is completely black with no twilight or sky glow whatsoever, heavy 80% cloud cover obscuring all stars, the landscape visible only by amber and white industrial lighting, sodium streetlamps along a winding road, and faint glowing windows of distant villages. Temperature is mild early autumn at 14.9°C; vegetation shows late-summer green beginning to hint at autumn yellows, rendered in muted nocturnal tones. The low electricity price creates a calm, expansive atmospheric mood with no oppressive heaviness. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, deep colour palette of indigo, umber, and warm amber, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro from the industrial lights against the black sky — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 20 September 2026, 00:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-19T22:20 UTC · Download image