🎉 Grid Poet just got an upgrade! Faster data, better charts. Welcome to the new version. 🌱⚡
Grid Poet — 20 June 2026, 21:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate evening generation as 18.8 GW net imports fill a large supply gap.
Back
Grid analysis Claude AI
At 21:00 on a summer evening, solar generation has effectively ceased at 0.3 GW, leaving thermal plants to carry the bulk of evening demand. Domestic generation totals 27.2 GW against 46.0 GW consumption, requiring approximately 18.8 GW of net imports. Brown coal and natural gas each contribute 6.3 GW, forming the thermal backbone alongside 2.8 GW of hard coal, while onshore wind provides a modest 5.1 GW in moderate wind conditions. The day-ahead price of 182.6 EUR/MWh reflects tight supply conditions driven by the large import requirement and sustained thermal dispatch during a warm summer evening with residual cooling demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun has fled but the furnaces remain, lignite towers exhaling their ancient breath into the violet dark. Across the borders, rivers of electrons flow inward to feed a nation still warm from the longest day.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 1%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 23%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 23%
43%
Renewable share
5.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.3 GW
Solar
27.2 GW
Total generation
-18.9 GW
Net import
182.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
28.4°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 38.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
383
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.3 GW dominates the left quarter as four massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into darkness; natural gas 6.3 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT power stations with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; wind onshore 5.1 GW spans the centre as a line of eight three-blade turbines on lattice towers with blades turning gently in moderate wind; biomass 4.0 GW appears centre-right as a wood-clad industrial facility with a single chimney and warm interior glow from lit windows; hard coal 2.8 GW occupies the right as a coal-fired plant with a large smokestack and conveyor infrastructure; hydro 1.7 GW is rendered as a small dam structure with illuminated spillway in the far right background; wind offshore 0.5 GW appears as a distant cluster of three turbines on the far horizon line. The scene is set at 21:00 on a summer night — the sky is completely dark, deep navy-black with no twilight glow, only stars faintly visible above. All structures are lit by warm sodium-orange industrial lighting, glowing control-room windows, and red aviation warning lights on the wind turbine nacelles. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, with a humid summer haze clinging to the ground, reflecting the high electricity price. Lush green vegetation — tall grasses, leafy deciduous trees in full summer canopy — frames the foreground, barely visible in the artificial light, suggesting 28°C warmth. The sky is perfectly clear, zero clouds. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, dark palette of Prussian blue, amber, and burnt sienna, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between industrial light sources and surrounding darkness, atmospheric depth with haze softening distant structures. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotors with visible nacelle housings, aluminium-framed structures, concrete cooling tower shells with visible condensation. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 20 June 2026, 21:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-20T19:20 UTC · Download image