Grid Poet — 23 September 2026, 20:00
Brown coal, gas, and wind dominate as evening demand and zero solar drive high prices and 14.7 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 20:00 on a late-September evening, solar generation is zero and wind contributes 13.0 GW combined (onshore 7.7 GW, offshore 5.3 GW), yielding a renewable share of 42.5%. Thermal generation is running hard: brown coal leads at 11.1 GW, natural gas at 9.6 GW, and hard coal at 4.0 GW, reflecting the evening demand peak and the absence of solar. Domestic generation totals 42.9 GW against 57.6 GW consumption, implying a net import of approximately 14.7 GW — a substantial evening draw on interconnectors. The day-ahead price of 236.6 EUR/MWh is elevated but consistent with a high-residual-load hour in which expensive gas-fired and imported capacity sets the marginal price.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun has fled and coal-fires breathe their ashen hymns into the autumn dark, while turbines hum a cooler prayer across the plain. Across every border, borrowed current flows like rivers seeking a restless, hungry sea.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 26%
42%
Renewable share
13.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
42.9 GW
Total generation
14.7 GW
Net import
236.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.9°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
45.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
391
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 11.1 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; natural gas 9.6 GW fills the centre-left as a pair of modern CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, floodlit in cold white; wind onshore 7.7 GW spans the centre-right as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling farmland, red aviation warning lights blinking on nacelles; wind offshore 5.3 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of turbines standing in a dark sea glimpsed beyond a coastal ridge; hard coal 4.0 GW sits in the mid-left as a smaller conventional plant with a single large chimney trailing grey smoke; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a modest wood-fired facility with a peaked roofline and a squat stack glowing warmly near the centre; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway visible in a valley fold at far right. The sky is completely dark — a deep navy-black September night, no twilight, no sky glow — with a partly cloudy canopy at 45% cover where patches of stars and a slim crescent peek between clouds. The autumn landscape shows fields of stubble and trees just beginning to turn gold-brown, temperature around 15 °C conveyed by light jackets on two tiny figures near a fence. A moderate breeze animates the turbine blades and bends roadside grasses. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, hazy with industrial steam and a yellowish pall reflecting the high electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric perspective receding into smoky distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 23 September 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-23T18:20 UTC · Download image