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Grid Poet — 18 June 2026, 01:00
Brown coal and gas dominate overnight generation as low wind and absent solar drive elevated prices and 13.7 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 01:00 on a mild June night, German consumption sits at 42.8 GW against domestic generation of 29.1 GW, requiring approximately 13.7 GW of net imports. Brown coal leads generation at 7.6 GW, followed by natural gas at 7.0 GW, reflecting the absence of solar and modest wind output of 6.2 GW combined onshore and offshore. The day-ahead price of 125.7 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, consistent with the heavy reliance on thermal baseload and significant import volumes. Renewables contribute 40.1% of domestic generation, sustained overnight primarily by biomass at 3.7 GW and hydro at 1.7 GW alongside wind.
Grid poem Claude AI
Lignite towers breathe their ancient carbon into the starlit dark, while turbines turn with weary patience on a windless summer night. The grid reaches across borders, drawing power like a river seeking the sea.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 6%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 24%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 26%
40%
Renewable share
6.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
29.1 GW
Total generation
-13.7 GW
Net import
125.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.0°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
2.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
405
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising against a black night sky, illuminated from below by orange sodium lamps and the red glow of conveyor belts feeding lignite; natural gas 7.0 GW fills the centre-left as a pair of modern CCGT power stations with tall slender exhaust stacks venting thin vapour, their facades lit by floodlights; wind onshore 4.5 GW appears across the middle-right distance as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the deep navy-black sky, rotors turning very slowly in light breeze; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack, warmly lit from within; hard coal 2.8 GW appears to the far left as a smaller conventional power station with a single large chimney and coal bunker visible under spotlights; wind offshore 1.7 GW is suggested by distant turbines along a dark horizon line over a barely visible North Sea, marked by faint navigation lights; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a concrete dam structure in the right foreground with water cascading over a spillway, lit by security lighting. The sky is completely dark, star-filled with 2% cloud cover, no moon glow, no twilight — pure deep black with pinpoint stars. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, reflecting the high electricity price — a faint industrial haze softens distant lights. Lush green summer vegetation on rolling central German hills is barely visible in the artificial light, suggesting 18°C warmth. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between industrial light sources and surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth receding into blackness, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 18 June 2026, 01:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-17T23:20 UTC · Download image