Grid Poet — 11 October 2026, 08:00
Strong onshore wind leads at 27.5 GW under full overcast, with brown coal and biomass providing thermal baseload.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at 08:00 on an overcast autumn morning is dominated by strong onshore wind at 27.5 GW, supplemented by 4.3 GW offshore wind, yielding a combined 31.8 GW from wind alone. Solar contributes a modest 3.9 GW under full cloud cover with zero direct radiation, while biomass provides a steady 4.4 GW baseload. Brown coal remains online at 5.9 GW, reflecting its typical inflexibility and merit-order position, with hard coal at 0.8 GW and natural gas at 2.0 GW providing marginal balancing. Total generation of 49.8 GW exceeds consumption of 47.8 GW, resulting in a net export of approximately 2.0 GW. The day-ahead price of 135.3 EUR/MWh is notably elevated for an 82.5% renewable share with net export conditions, suggesting tight interconnector capacity, high fuel and carbon costs, or elevated prices in neighboring markets pulling German power at premium rates.
Grid poem Claude AI
An iron wind howls across the autumn flatlands, spinning a thousand blades into a grey cathedral of power. Beneath the leaden sky, old lignite towers exhale their patient ghosts, unwilling yet to cede the ground.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 55%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 8%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 12%
82%
Renewable share
31.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.9 GW
Solar
49.8 GW
Total generation
+2.0 GW
Net export
135.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.3°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
130
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 27.5 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast rows of modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across flat northern German farmland, rotors visibly turning in strong wind; brown coal 5.9 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes merging into the overcast sky, beside a lignite-fired power station with conveyor belts and coal bunkers; biomass 4.4 GW appears in the left middle-ground as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage yard and a single exhaust stack emitting thin vapour; wind offshore 4.3 GW is visible on the far right horizon as a line of turbines standing in a grey North Sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain; solar 3.9 GW is represented by a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre foreground, their surfaces dull and reflective-grey under the clouds, producing minimal output; natural gas 2.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, tucked between the biomass plant and the wind turbines; hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible along a river in the near foreground; hard coal 0.8 GW is a single smaller smokestack facility partially obscured behind the lignite complex. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, a heavy uniform blanket of pewter-grey stratus pressing low, but it is full daylight at 08:00 in October — diffuse, flat, cool illumination with no shadows, the light distinctly autumnal. Temperature is 7.3°C: the fields show late-autumn stubble, bare hedgerows, and dew-soaked brown grass; some trees retain sparse yellow-brown foliage. The atmosphere feels heavy, dense, and oppressive, reflecting the high 135 EUR/MWh price — the air itself seems thick and weighty. Wind animates the entire scene: grass bends, turbine blades blur slightly, steam plumes from the cooling towers are sheared sideways by the 18 km/h breeze. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layers of mist between foreground and background, Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale applied to industrial infrastructure, warm earth tones in the land contrasting with cold blue-greys in the sky, meticulous engineering accuracy in every nacelle, tower, and cooling structure. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 October 2026, 08:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-10-11T06:20 UTC · Download image