Grid Poet — 11 October 2026, 18:00
Strong onshore wind and heavy brown coal anchor the grid as solar fades and imports cover an 11.5 GW shortfall.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on an October evening, German consumption stands at 53.7 GW against 42.2 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 11.5 GW of net imports. Wind onshore contributes a strong 18.2 GW, but with solar essentially absent at 0.6 GW due to sunset and heavy overcast, the system leans on thermal baseload: brown coal at 10.1 GW, natural gas at 4.6 GW, and hard coal at 1.8 GW together supply 39% of generation. The day-ahead price of 228.1 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance and the cost of dispatching thermal units and sourcing imports during the evening demand peak, consistent with an autumn evening where residual load is elevated despite a 61% renewable share.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines spin their autumn hymn across a darkening plain, while ancient lignite fires still breathe to fill what wind cannot sustain.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 43%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 1%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 24%
61%
Renewable share
20.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.6 GW
Solar
42.2 GW
Total generation
11.5 GW
Net import
228.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.9°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
94.0% / 10.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
280
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 18.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers stretching across rolling autumnal hills, blades visibly turning in moderate wind. Brown coal 10.1 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky. Natural gas 4.6 GW appears in the centre-left as a pair of compact CCGT plants with slim metallic exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer. Biomass 4.4 GW sits in the middle distance as a wood-clad industrial facility with a short smokestack and timber storage yards. Hard coal 1.8 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single tall chimney and conveyor belt structures, adjacent to the lignite station. Wind offshore 1.7 GW is glimpsed as a faint cluster of turbines on the far horizon line. Hydro 0.9 GW is rendered as a small concrete dam with a controlled spillway on a river in the foreground valley. Solar 0.6 GW is barely present — a small array of aluminium-framed crystalline panels on a nearby rooftop, dark and inactive, catching no light. The sky is dusk at 18:00 in October Berlin: a narrow band of deep orange-red glow clings to the lower western horizon while the rest of the sky is heavy, oppressive, 94% cloud cover in dark grey-violet tones pressing down on the landscape, conveying high electricity prices and atmospheric tension. Temperature is cool at 10.9°C; trees show sparse golden-brown autumn foliage, some leaves scattered on the ground. Grass is damp and muted green-brown. Sodium streetlights along a road in the foreground are beginning to flicker on, casting amber pools. Highly detailed oil painting in the style of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with haze around the cooling towers, dramatic chiaroscuro between the fading horizon glow and the darkening overcast above. Meticulous engineering accuracy on all energy infrastructure. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 October 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-10-11T16:20 UTC · Download image