Grid Poet — 20 September 2026, 18:00
Strong onshore wind at 35.8 GW drives 87% renewable share, enabling 4.9 GW net exports at evening peak.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Wind dominates this evening grid state, with onshore and offshore combined delivering 41.5 GW — roughly 74% of total generation. Solar contributes a residual 2.8 GW as the September sun drops low under partial cloud cover. Brown coal holds at 3.8 GW and hard coal at 1.5 GW, providing baseload inertia alongside 3.6 GW of biomass and 1.7 GW of natural gas. Total generation exceeds consumption by 4.9 GW, indicating net exports of approximately 4.9 GW to neighboring markets. Despite the 87.4% renewable share and net export position, the day-ahead price remains moderate at 50.4 EUR/MWh, likely reflecting sustained demand across interconnected European markets during the early evening peak.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand steel sentinels hurl their arms against the autumn gale, channeling the wild September wind into rivers of invisible fire. Below them the old coal furnaces smolder on like fading embers of a prior age, their plumes dissolving into a twilight sky claimed by the turbines' reign.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 64%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 5%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 7%
87%
Renewable share
41.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.8 GW
Solar
56.1 GW
Total generation
+4.9 GW
Net export
50.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.1°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
61.0% / 50.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
91
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 35.8 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills from the centre to the far right, rotors visibly spinning in strong wind; wind offshore 5.7 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the horizon line above a faintly glimpsed sea; brown coal 3.8 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky; biomass 3.6 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a rectangular stack and wood-chip storage yard just left of centre; solar 2.8 GW is shown as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre-left middle ground, catching the last weak light; natural gas 1.7 GW is a compact CCGT unit with a single tall exhaust stack emitting a thin transparent heat shimmer, positioned between the coal towers and biomass plant; hard coal 1.5 GW is a smaller coal-fired station with a single concrete chimney and conveyor belt visible beside the brown coal complex; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small dam and spillway in the lower right foreground with water flowing. The sky is dusk at 18:00 in late September — a deep orange-red glow lingers along the lower western horizon, fading upward through amber into darkening steel-blue and indigo overhead, with 61% cloud cover rendered as broken alto-stratus clouds catching warm colour underneath and going dark on top. Temperature is mild at 17°C with green-but-early-turning deciduous foliage on scattered trees, some leaves beginning to show autumn yellows. Wind at 20 km/h animates grass, tree branches, and turbine blades with visible lateral motion. Moderate price conveyed through a neutral, open but slightly hazy atmosphere — not oppressive, not perfectly clear. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork visible in the clouds, luminous glazes in the sky gradients, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, PV panel framing, and CCGT exhaust geometry. Atmospheric depth with aerial perspective softening distant turbines. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 20 September 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-20T16:20 UTC · Download image