Grid Poet — 26 September 2026, 00:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate overnight generation; net imports of 7.8 GW bridge the consumption gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midnight on 26 September 2026, German consumption stands at 42.2 GW against domestic generation of 34.4 GW, requiring approximately 7.8 GW of net imports. Brown coal dominates the generation stack at 10.7 GW, supplemented by 7.8 GW of natural gas and 4.0 GW of hard coal — together these thermal plants provide 65% of output. Wind contributes a modest 6.9 GW combined (onshore 5.8 GW, offshore 1.1 GW) with solar absent at this hour, yielding a renewable share of 34.6%. The day-ahead price of 196.3 EUR/MWh is elevated, consistent with high thermal dispatch and reliance on imports to close the generation gap during overnight baseload demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless vault the furnaces breathe their ancient carbon hymn, cooling towers exhaling pale ghosts into the cold September dark. The turbines on the ridge turn slowly, whispering of a dawn they cannot hasten.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 23%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 31%
35%
Renewable share
6.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
34.4 GW
Total generation
7.9 GW
Net import
196.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.3°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
453
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.7 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers, thick white steam plumes rising into the black sky, conveyor belts feeding raw brown coal; natural gas 7.8 GW fills the centre-left as three compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.0 GW appears centre-right as a single large coal-fired station with rectangular boiler house and a fat smokestack; wind onshore 5.8 GW spans the right portion as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers along a low ridge, slowly turning; wind offshore 1.1 GW is suggested by distant small turbines on the far-right horizon; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip facility with a squat cylindrical silo and modest steam vent beside the coal plant; hydro 1.0 GW is a small concrete dam and powerhouse nestled in a valley fold at far right. TIME: midnight, completely dark sky — deep navy-black, no twilight, no sky glow, stars barely visible through an oppressive heavy atmosphere suggesting the high electricity price. Sodium-orange streetlights line a road in the foreground, casting pools of amber on autumn-yellowed grass and bare-branching trees at 11°C in late September. A moderate breeze of 13 km/h stirs branches and turbine blades. Industrial facility windows glow warm yellow-white. Clear sky overhead (0% cloud) yet the atmosphere feels thick and weighty. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on each turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, CCGT exhaust geometry, and coal conveyor structure. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 26 September 2026, 00:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-09-25T22:20 UTC · Download image