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Grid Poet — 1 June 2026, 20:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal anchor a 28.2 GW domestic supply while 28.9 GW net imports cover windless evening demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Domestic generation totals 28.2 GW against consumption of 57.1 GW, requiring approximately 28.9 GW of net imports. Thermal generation dominates the supply stack: brown coal provides 7.9 GW, natural gas 7.0 GW, and hard coal 4.1 GW, collectively accounting for two-thirds of domestic output. Wind generation is negligible at 1.0 GW combined onshore and offshore, consistent with near-calm conditions of 1.1 km/h, while solar contributes only 2.0 GW at 20:00 under full overcast with minimal direct radiation. The day-ahead price of 355.3 EUR/MWh reflects the severe supply-demand imbalance and heavy reliance on imports and marginal thermal units during a windless summer evening.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden shroud the turbines stand as sentinels in stillness, while furnaces of ancient earth roar wide to fill the chasm between want and light. The grid groans under its borrowed burden, drawing power from distant lands as coal smoke braids with dusk's last vanishing thread.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 7%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 7%
Natural gas 25%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 28%
32%
Renewable share
1.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.0 GW
Solar
28.2 GW
Total generation
-29.0 GW
Net import
355.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.6°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 22.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
462
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#3 The Spike
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Brown coal 7.9 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a vast lignite power station with four massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the dark sky, their concrete shells glowing faintly orange from sodium floodlights below; natural gas 7.0 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and illuminated turbine halls; hard coal 4.1 GW appears centre-right as a heavy industrial block with conveyor belts, coal bunkers, and a single wide chimney trailing grey smoke; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized biomass CHP plants with wood-chip storage domes and modest stacks, lit by facility lights; solar 2.0 GW appears as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground, barely visible under artificial light with no sunshine whatsoever; hydro 1.9 GW shows as a concrete dam structure with illuminated spillway in the far right middle ground; wind onshore 0.8 GW is a pair of three-blade turbines on distant hills, their rotors completely still in the dead calm air, red aviation warning lights blinking at the nacelle tops. The sky is completely dark at 20:00 in June, deep navy-black with heavy 100 percent overcast — no stars, no twilight glow, an oppressive low ceiling of clouds pressing down. The atmosphere feels dense and stifling, reflecting the extreme 355 EUR/MWh price: haze and industrial steam merge with the cloud base, sodium and mercury-vapour lights cast harsh pools of amber and blue-white across the industrial landscape. Summer vegetation — full leafy trees and tall green grass — is dimly visible in the foreground margins. The entire scene is painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing industrial facilities and the pitch-dark sky, atmospheric depth with layers of steam and haze receding into blackness, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 1 June 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-01T18:20 UTC · Download image