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Grid Poet — 18 June 2026, 21:00
Gas and brown coal dominate a 27.7 GW domestic supply while 24.5 GW of net imports fill a calm, hot summer evening's demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 21:00 on a warm June evening, Germany's domestic generation of 27.7 GW covers only about half of the 52.2 GW consumption, requiring approximately 24.5 GW of net imports. Brown coal leads the domestic mix at 8.3 GW, followed by natural gas at 8.9 GW, with renewables contributing just 7.6 GW — largely biomass (4.0 GW) and hydro (1.8 GW) — as solar has effectively dropped off and wind remains negligible at 1.5 GW combined in near-calm conditions. The day-ahead price of 441.9 EUR/MWh reflects the extreme tightness of this situation: high residual load driven by sustained evening demand in a heatwave, minimal wind and solar output, and heavy reliance on expensive imports and thermal dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines stand like sentinels abandoned by the wind, their blades frozen against a sweltering, darkened sky. Lignite furnaces roar through the summer night, feeding a nation that drinks more power than it can pour.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 1%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 32%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 30%
27%
Renewable share
1.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.3 GW
Solar
27.7 GW
Total generation
-24.5 GW
Net import
441.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.2°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
15.0% / 27.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
482
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#1 The Spike #3 Wild Ride
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into a dark navy-black night sky; natural gas 8.9 GW fills the centre-left as a row of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks and glowing orange-lit turbine halls; biomass 4.0 GW appears centre-right as several industrial boiler buildings with short chimneys and warm amber light spilling from their grated vents; hard coal 2.9 GW sits behind the biomass as a pair of large coal plants with conveyor belts and red aviation warning lights on their stacks; hydro 1.8 GW is rendered as a concrete dam structure in the right background with floodlit spillways and faint white water; wind onshore 1.3 GW appears as a few distant three-blade turbines on a ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air, with small red blinking lights on the nacelles; solar 0.3 GW is represented only by a handful of dark, unlit aluminium-framed crystalline PV panels on a field in the deep foreground, reflecting no light. The sky is completely dark — deep navy to black, no twilight glow, no sunset remnant — it is 21:00 in June but fully night-like in atmosphere. A few stars are faintly visible through 15 percent cloud cover. The air feels heavy and oppressive, conveying extreme heat at 27 degrees: the foreground grass is parched and golden-brown, summer foliage on scattered linden trees is lush but wilted. Sodium streetlights cast harsh orange pools along a road in the lower foreground. The overall atmosphere is tense and heavy, reflecting the extreme electricity price — a brooding, industrial landscape under a suffocating summer night. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich, dark colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro lighting from the industrial facilities against the black sky, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 18 June 2026, 21:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-18T19:20 UTC · Download image