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Grid Poet — 19 June 2026, 04:00
Brown coal and onshore wind lead overnight generation as Germany imports ~14 GW to meet 42.5 GW demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 04:00 on a mid-June night, German consumption sits at 42.5 GW against 28.3 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 14.2 GW of net imports. Brown coal leads the generation stack at 6.9 GW, followed by wind onshore at 6.4 GW and natural gas at 5.8 GW, with hard coal contributing 2.8 GW. The day-ahead price of 118.5 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, reflecting the substantial import dependency under moderate wind and zero solar output. Renewables account for 45% of domestic generation, carried entirely by wind, biomass, and hydro in the absence of any solar contribution.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless vault of coal-smoke grey, the turbines turn their slow nocturnal prayer while furnaces hold dominion over the dark, burning the ancient forest of a hundred million years. The grid reaches across borders with open hands, drawing current like breath from distant lungs.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 0%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 21%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 24%
45%
Renewable share
7.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
28.3 GW
Total generation
-14.2 GW
Net import
118.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.8°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
96.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
376
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.9 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the black sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps and glowing furnace mouths; onshore wind 6.4 GW fills the centre-right as a long row of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their aviation warning lights blinking red against the darkness, rotors turning slowly in light wind; natural gas 5.8 GW appears as a pair of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, illuminated by harsh industrial floodlights; biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip conveyor and a moderately sized smokestack with faint pale exhaust; hard coal 2.8 GW sits as a coal-fired plant with a single large stack and visible coal bunkers, glowing under amber work lights; hydro 1.8 GW appears as a concrete dam spillway in the far background, small but visible with white water catching artificial light; offshore wind 1.0 GW is suggested by a distant line of tiny red lights on the far horizon. The sky is completely black with heavy 96% overcast, no stars, no moon, no twilight — a deep navy-to-black oppressive canopy pressing down. The atmosphere is heavy, humid, almost suffocating, conveying the high electricity price. The landscape is a gently rolling central German plain in early summer with lush dark green vegetation barely visible in the industrial glow. Sodium streetlights cast amber pools along an access road. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro with deep blacks and warm industrial oranges, atmospheric depth receding into haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 19 June 2026, 04:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-19T02:20 UTC · Download image