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Grid Poet — 25 March 2026, 05:00
Dominant onshore wind at 41.7 GW drives 10.8 GW net export and near-zero prices before dawn.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 05:00 on 25 March, strong onshore wind at 41.7 GW dominates the generation mix, supplemented by 6.0 GW offshore wind, producing a combined 47.7 GW of wind power against 49.8 GW consumption. Biomass (4.1 GW), brown coal (3.3 GW), natural gas (2.5 GW), hard coal (2.1 GW), and hydro (1.0 GW) fill the remainder, pushing total generation to 60.6 GW and yielding a net export of 10.8 GW. The day-ahead price has collapsed to 0.4 EUR/MWh, consistent with overnight oversupply driven by high wind output against subdued pre-dawn demand. Thermal plants remain online at reduced output, likely constrained by minimum generation obligations and anticipated morning ramp requirements.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades carve the black March wind into rivers of current that flood the sleeping land. The furnaces glow low, humbled, as the storm gives more than any nation can hold.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 69%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 5%
87%
Renewable share
47.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
60.6 GW
Total generation
+10.8 GW
Net export
0.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.2°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
91
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 41.7 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with lattice towers and detailed nacelles stretching across roughly two-thirds of the composition, from centre to far right, their rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind; wind offshore 6.0 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines on the distant right horizon standing in a faintly visible sea; brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the left foreground as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin wisps of pale steam, lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 2.5 GW sits just right of the cooling towers as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a faint heat shimmer; hard coal 2.1 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a rectangular boiler house and chimney beside the brown coal plant; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground cluster of industrial biomass facilities with cylindrical wood-chip silos and short stacks emitting light vapour; hydro 1.0 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with turbine housing visible at the base of a gentle valley on the far left. Time is 05:00 pre-dawn in late March: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest cold pale band on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no solar panels anywhere. The landscape is early-spring Germany — bare deciduous trees just beginning to bud, muted brown-green fields, patches of low mist in the valleys. Overcast cloud layer at 100% blankets the sky. The mood is calm and expansive despite the wind, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. All industrial facilities glow with warm sodium and LED lighting against the dark sky. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich, luminous colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — yet every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower rib, every CCGT exhaust detail is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 25 March 2026, 05:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-25T14:14 UTC · Download image