Grid Poet — 10 October 2026, 04:00
Onshore and offshore wind drive 87.8% renewable share, pushing 7.5 GW net export at zero price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 04:00 CEST, strong onshore wind at 31.2 GW combined with 6.5 GW offshore wind dominates the German grid, contributing 77.9% of total generation alone. Total generation of 48.4 GW exceeds consumption of 40.9 GW, producing a net export of 7.5 GW — consistent with the day-ahead price clearing at 0.0 EUR/MWh, reflecting typical overnight oversupply in a wind-rich autumn regime. Thermal baseload remains online at modest levels: brown coal at 2.2 GW, natural gas at 2.6 GW, and hard coal at 1.0 GW, likely constrained by minimum-run obligations and ancillary service commitments. Biomass contributes a steady 3.9 GW and hydro 0.9 GW, rounding out a generation stack that is 87.8% renewable under heavy overcast skies with no solar contribution.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades carve the autumn dark, their hymn so fierce that coal plants merely whisper beneath the overcast crown. The grid overflows into neighboring lands like a river swollen past its banks, and the price of power falls to nothing at all.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 65%
Wind offshore 13%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
88%
Renewable share
37.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
48.4 GW
Total generation
+7.5 GW
Net export
—
Day-ahead price
11.6°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
97.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
80
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 31.2 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines stretching across rolling hills from center to far right, their white lattice towers and nacelles receding into atmospheric perspective, rotors spinning briskly in strong wind; wind offshore 6.5 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea inlet; biomass 3.9 GW occupies the lower-left foreground as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall rectangular stack emitting pale wood-combustion exhaust and a conveyor belt carrying wood pellets; natural gas 2.6 GW sits left-of-center as a compact CCGT facility with a single slender exhaust stack and low-profile turbine hall, warm sodium lighting on its metal cladding; brown coal 2.2 GW appears at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of steam rising, illuminated by amber industrial floodlights; hard coal 1.0 GW is a smaller single cooling tower and boiler house beside the brown coal, with a conveyor and dark coal pile faintly visible; hydro 0.9 GW is represented by a small dam and spillway in the lower-left corner with water glinting under artificial light. The sky is completely dark — deep navy-black, 04:00 nighttime with no twilight, no sky glow, 97% cloud cover creating a featureless opaque ceiling overhead. Clouds are faintly textured by diffuse light pollution from below. The autumn landscape shows browning grasses and scattered deciduous trees with thinning foliage at 11.6°C. Wind animates the scene: grasses bend, tree branches sway, turbine blades blur with motion. The overall mood is calm and expansive despite the darkness — a sense of abundant quiet power. Sodium-orange and cool-white industrial lighting creates pools of warm glow around each facility, reflected on wet ground. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric chiaroscuro, luminous contrasts between dark sky and glowing industrial islands — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 10 October 2026, 04:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-10-10T02:20 UTC · Download image