Grid Poet — 20 September 2026, 04:00
Strong overnight wind drives 32.5 GW combined output, pushing 6.2 GW net exports and collapsing prices to 9 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 04:00 on a mid-September night, strong onshore wind (25.6 GW) and offshore wind (6.9 GW) dominate the generation mix, providing 74% of total output alone. With consumption at 37.7 GW against 43.9 GW of generation, Germany is net exporting approximately 6.2 GW, consistent with the very low day-ahead price of 9.0 EUR/MWh. Brown coal (3.6 GW) and biomass (3.6 GW) maintain baseload contributions, while natural gas (2.0 GW) and hard coal (1.1 GW) remain at low dispatch levels, reflecting the marginal economics at this price point. The 84.8% renewable share is characteristic of a windy autumn night with suppressed demand and zero solar contribution.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades carve the black September wind, their tireless hymn flooding the sleeping land with invisible rivers of power. The coal furnaces glow low like dying embers, humbled beneath the reign of the roaring dark.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 58%
Wind offshore 16%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 8%
85%
Renewable share
32.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
43.9 GW
Total generation
+6.2 GW
Net export
9.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.4°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
88.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
108
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 25.6 GW dominates the scene as vast rows of three-blade turbines with lattice towers stretching across rolling central German hills from the centre to the far right, rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind; wind offshore 6.9 GW appears in the distant background as a faint line of turbines on a dark sea horizon at the far right; brown coal 3.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers emitting pale steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; biomass 3.6 GW sits adjacent as a compact industrial plant with a tall rectangular stack and wood-chip storage bunkers, warmly illuminated by facility lighting; natural gas 2.0 GW appears as a single CCGT unit with a slender exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, placed centre-left; hard coal 1.1 GW is a smaller coal plant with a single squat chimney trailing thin smoke near the far left; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir glinting in artificial light at the lower left edge. Time is 04:00 — the sky is completely black with no twilight, no sky glow, deep navy-to-black overhead, stars barely visible through 88% cloud cover creating a heavy grey overcast ceiling. The landscape is dark, lit only by amber and white industrial facility lights, sodium streetlamps along a winding road, and the faint red aviation warning lights atop the turbine nacelles dotting the hills. Trees show early autumn green foliage at a mild 15°C. Wind is palpable — grass bends, clouds streak, turbine blades blur with motion. The low electricity price creates a calm, expansive atmosphere with open composition. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, deep colour palette of indigo, amber, and slate grey, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with misty layers between turbine rows, meticulous engineering detail on every nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. The scene evokes Caspar David Friedrich reimagining an industrial nocturne. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 20 September 2026, 04:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-20T02:20 UTC · Download image