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Grid Poet — 20 June 2026, 23:00
Brown coal, gas, and wind anchor overnight generation as large net imports fill a 14.5 GW gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 23:00 on a warm summer night, German consumption sits at 42.1 GW against domestic generation of 27.6 GW, requiring approximately 14.5 GW of net imports. With solar at zero and onshore wind producing only 5.3 GW in light 7.5 km/h winds, renewables contribute 41.7% of domestic generation, leaning heavily on biomass (3.9 GW) and hydro (1.7 GW) as baseload complements. Brown coal (6.6 GW) and natural gas (6.7 GW) are the dominant thermal sources, with hard coal adding 2.8 GW, collectively backstopping the shortfall in variable renewables. The day-ahead price of 146.8 EUR/MWh reflects the tight domestic supply-demand balance and the cost of marginal gas and import capacity during a period of elevated late-evening demand, likely sustained by cooling loads in the 25 °C warmth.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless vault the furnaces still breathe, feeding coal-fire and gas-flame into a grid that drinks the night like a river swallowing rain. The turbines turn slowly on the distant ridge, too few to silence the deep mechanical hum of a nation unwilling to sleep.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 2%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 24%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 24%
42%
Renewable share
5.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.6 GW
Total generation
-14.4 GW
Net import
146.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.3°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
391
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.6 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of four massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, lit from below by orange sodium lights against a black sky; natural gas 6.7 GW occupies the centre-left as two modern CCGT power stations with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer, their turbine halls glowing with interior fluorescent light; wind onshore 5.3 GW fills the centre-right as a line of eight three-blade turbines on lattice towers along a low ridge, red aviation warning lights blinking on nacelles, blades turning slowly; hard coal 2.8 GW appears at the far left as a compact plant with a single large smokestack and conveyor belt silhouetted against facility lighting; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered centre-background as a medium industrial plant with a cylindrical silo and small chimney emitting faint vapour, warmly lit; hydro 1.7 GW appears far right as a concrete dam spillway with water catching the reflection of floodlights; wind offshore 0.5 GW is a tiny cluster of two turbines barely visible on a dark horizon line at far right. The sky is completely black with faint stars, no twilight, no moon — a deep summer night. The foreground shows lush green deciduous trees and tall grass appropriate for late June, visible only where sodium streetlamps cast amber pools of light along a country road. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, a warm humid haze softening distant lights, conveying the tension of high electricity prices. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro contrasts between industrial glow and enveloping darkness, atmospheric depth with layered haze. Each technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor profiles, aluminium nacelle housings, reinforced-concrete cooling tower shells with visible ribbing, steel exhaust stacks. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 20 June 2026, 23:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-06-20T21:20 UTC · Download image