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Grid Poet — 10 May 2026, 19:00
Wind leads at 12.6 GW but heavy overcast and evening demand drive 16.9 GW net imports and 122 EUR/MWh prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 19:00 on a May evening, Germany's grid draws 50.5 GW against 33.6 GW of domestic generation, implying approximately 16.9 GW of net imports. Wind onshore leads generation at 10.4 GW, followed by brown coal at 6.1 GW and biomass at 4.4 GW; solar contributes a modest 3.9 GW as irradiance fades under full overcast. The 122 EUR/MWh day-ahead price reflects the substantial residual load and reliance on thermal and imported power during the evening demand peak. Despite the heavy cloud cover and ebbing daylight, renewables still account for 66.3% of domestic generation, with onshore and offshore wind together providing 12.6 GW.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky the turbines turn their tireless hymn, while coal fires glow like ancient hearts refusing to grow dim. The grid stretches taut across the dusk, hungry beyond what the homeland's green fields can give.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 12%
Biomass 13%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 18%
66%
Renewable share
12.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
3.9 GW
Solar
33.6 GW
Total generation
-16.9 GW
Net import
122.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.7°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 41.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
242
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.1 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into a heavy overcast sky; biomass 4.4 GW appears just left of centre as a pair of industrial wood-chip power stations with sloped fuel conveyors and modest chimneys trailing pale smoke; natural gas 3.1 GW sits at centre as two compact CCGT plants with slim silver exhaust stacks and visible heat haze; hard coal 2.2 GW occupies the centre-right as a dark brick coal station with a single tall stack and coal bunker; solar 3.9 GW appears as a mid-ground field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels, their surfaces dull and reflecting no sun under the grey sky; wind onshore 10.4 GW spans the entire right third and recedes deep into the background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 2.2 GW is glimpsed on the far-right horizon as a faint row of turbines rising from a slate-grey sea; hydro 1.4 GW is represented by a small concrete run-of-river dam and powerhouse beside a dark stream in the right foreground. The sky is a uniform, oppressive blanket of 100% cloud cover; the hour is 19:00 in May — late dusk with a thin band of orange-red glow along the very lowest horizon fading rapidly into dark grey and near-black overhead, no direct sunlight, ambient light dimming fast. Temperature is warm at nearly 20 °C; vegetation is lush late-spring green — beech and oak trees in full leaf, tall grasses, wildflowers — but darkened under fading twilight. The atmosphere feels heavy and expensive, saturated with haze, the clouds pressing low. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, deep atmospheric perspective, warm industrial amber light from plant windows and stack tips contrasting with the cool grey-blue dusk. Meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower rib, every PV panel frame. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 10 May 2026, 19:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-10T17:20 UTC · Download image