Grid Poet — 11 October 2026, 20:00
Wind leads at 17 GW but brown coal, gas, and imports fill a large evening demand gap with no solar.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 20:00 on an autumn Sunday evening, German consumption stands at 53.0 GW against domestic generation of 45.2 GW, requiring approximately 7.8 GW of net imports. Wind onshore contributes a solid 17.0 GW, and combined with offshore wind, biomass, hydro, and zero solar output after dark, renewables account for 52.6% of generation. Brown coal provides a substantial baseload of 11.0 GW, complemented by 7.9 GW of natural gas and 2.6 GW of hard coal, reflecting the need for dispatchable thermal capacity during evening peak hours with no solar contribution. The day-ahead price of 229.1 EUR/MWh is elevated, consistent with the high residual load, significant import dependency, and full commitment of available thermal assets.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a lidded autumn sky, coal towers exhale their ghostly breath into the black while turbine blades carve restless arcs through the unseen wind. The grid strains at its seams, buying distant megawatts to feed the lit cities below.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 24%
53%
Renewable share
18.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
45.2 GW
Total generation
7.8 GW
Net import
229.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.6°C / 10 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
327
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 17.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling dark hills; brown coal 11.0 GW occupies the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the blackness, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles; natural gas 7.9 GW appears in the centre-left as a cluster of compact CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 2.6 GW sits as a smaller coal-fired plant with a single rectangular stack and coal bunkers near the brown coal complex; biomass 4.6 GW is represented by several modest industrial buildings with small chimneys and wood-chip storage domes in the mid-ground; wind offshore 1.4 GW appears as a distant line of turbines on a dark horizon suggesting the North Sea; hydro 0.9 GW is a small dam structure with spillway barely visible at the far right edge. TIME: 20:00 in October — fully dark, deep black sky with 97% cloud cover meaning no stars visible, only a faint dark-grey overcast ceiling lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting. Temperature 9.6°C: late-autumn vegetation, bare branches on scattered trees, brown and muted-green meadows. Moderate wind suggested by slightly angled steam plumes and turbine blade motion blur. HIGH PRICE atmosphere: heavy, oppressive low clouds pressing down on the scene, dense and brooding. Foreground shows a small German village with warm-lit windows and amber streetlights casting pools of orange light on wet cobblestone. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of deep navy, coal-black, burnt umber and sodium amber; visible impasto brushwork; dramatic chiaroscuro between industrial glow and surrounding darkness; meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine rotors, cooling tower parabolic profiles, and CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 October 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-10-11T18:20 UTC · Download image