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Grid Poet — 11 June 2026, 04:00
Brown coal, onshore wind, and gas dominate a 29 GW overnight supply requiring ~16 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 04:00 on a fully overcast June night, German domestic generation totals 29.1 GW against 44.8 GW consumption, resulting in approximately 15.7 GW of net imports. Brown coal leads generation at 7.7 GW, followed by onshore wind at 6.6 GW and natural gas at 6.3 GW; solar contributes nothing at this hour. The day-ahead price of 126.0 EUR/MWh is elevated, consistent with the heavy reliance on thermal baseload and substantial import volumes needed to meet overnight demand. Renewable share stands at 43.2%, carried almost entirely by onshore wind and biomass, a reasonable outcome for a windless pre-dawn hour with no solar resource available.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless shroud of coal-smoke and cloud, the old furnaces breathe their amber glow into the void where no sun dares. The turbines turn slowly on distant ridgelines, patient sentinels awaiting a dawn still hours away.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 0%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 7%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 26%
43%
Renewable share
6.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
29.1 GW
Total generation
-15.6 GW
Net import
126.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.1°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
388
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.7 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes into the black night sky, lit from below by amber sodium lamps; onshore wind 6.6 GW spans the centre-right as a long row of three-blade turbines on lattice towers atop a dark ridge, red aviation warning lights blinking on each nacelle, blades turning slowly in moderate wind; natural gas 6.3 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer, their steel structures illuminated by harsh industrial floodlights; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a single squat stack and a warm orange glow from its boiler house windows; hard coal 2.6 GW sits behind the brown coal station as a smaller conventional plant with a single rectangular cooling tower and conveyor belts faintly visible under spotlights; hydro 2.1 GW appears in the far right background as a concrete dam with water channels lit by small utility lights; offshore wind 0.2 GW is a barely visible pair of turbines on the distant dark horizon. The sky is completely black with 100% cloud cover — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow — a heavy, oppressive overcast ceiling pressing down on the scene, conveying the high electricity price. The season is early summer but the temperature is cool at 10°C, with lush dark green deciduous trees barely visible in the foreground, their leaves stirring in the breeze. A wide river in the middle ground reflects the amber industrial lights. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich dark tones of Prussian blue, lamp black, raw umber, and cadmium orange — with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth through layered haze and steam, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 June 2026, 04:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-11T02:20 UTC · Download image