🎉 Grid Poet just got an upgrade! Faster data, better charts. Welcome to the new version. 🌱⚡
Grid Poet — 12 June 2026, 04:00
Wind leads overnight generation at 18.8 GW while 9.2 GW of net imports fill the gap under full cloud cover.
Back
Grid analysis Claude AI
At 04:00 on a mild June night, Germany's grid draws 45.5 GW against 36.3 GW of domestic generation, resulting in a net import of approximately 9.2 GW. Wind provides the backbone of overnight supply at 18.8 GW combined (onshore 15.1 GW, offshore 3.7 GW), while brown coal contributes a steady 6.1 GW baseload and biomass adds 3.8 GW. The day-ahead price of 93 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, reflecting the substantial import requirement and the dispatch of hard coal (1.8 GW) and natural gas (3.4 GW) to supplement the renewable base. With full cloud cover and zero solar contribution, the 68.8% renewable share is driven entirely by wind, hydro, and biomass — a solid overnight performance that will depend on solar availability after sunrise to ease the import position.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless vault of coal-black cloud, the turbines turn their tireless vigil — iron sentinels humming hymns to a sleeping nation. The furnaces of Lusatia breathe their ancient breath, bridging the dark hours until the sun reclaims its throne.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 42%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 0%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 17%
69%
Renewable share
18.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.3 GW
Total generation
-9.2 GW
Net import
93.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.9°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
222
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.1 GW dominates the right two-fifths of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling hills into the distance, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind. Wind offshore 3.7 GW appears as a cluster of taller turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea inlet. Brown coal 6.1 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights. Biomass 3.8 GW sits left-of-centre as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded silo, conveyor belts carrying wood chips, and a single smokestack with a modest plume, warmly lit. Natural gas 3.4 GW appears centre-right as a compact CCGT plant with a tall single exhaust stack and a visible heat-shimmer plume, illuminated by white facility lights. Hydro 2.3 GW is rendered as a concrete dam with spillway in the centre-left middle ground, water faintly reflecting artificial light. Hard coal 1.8 GW is a smaller conventional power station to the far left with a rectangular cooling tower and a single chimney, glowing dimly. The scene is set at 04:00 in deep night — the sky is completely black with no twilight, no stars visible due to 100% cloud cover creating a heavy, oppressive, low overcast ceiling faintly reflecting the orange-sodium glow of the industrial facilities below. The atmosphere feels dense and weighty, conveying high electricity prices. Vegetation is lush early-summer green visible only where light spills — tall grasses, deciduous trees in full leaf at 10.9°C. No solar panels anywhere. The landscape is central German — gentle hills, mixed farmland. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting (Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Blechen), rich saturated colour palette of deep navy, amber, burnt orange and cool grey, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze and steam, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower shell, and gas-turbine exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 12 June 2026, 04:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-12T02:20 UTC · Download image