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Grid Poet — 11 May 2026, 09:00
Overcast skies limit solar while coal, gas, and imports bridge a 17.8 GW gap to meet 64 GW demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 09:00 on a fully overcast May morning, Germany's grid draws 64.0 GW against 46.2 GW of domestic generation, implying approximately 17.8 GW of net imports. Dense cloud cover limits solar output to 13.4 GW — respectable for the installed base but well below clear-sky potential, with direct irradiance at just 2 W/m². Wind contributes a combined 10.1 GW (onshore 8.6, offshore 1.5), while brown coal at 8.0 GW and natural gas at 5.3 GW provide substantial thermal baseload, complemented by 3.7 GW of hard coal and 4.4 GW of biomass. The day-ahead price of 136.8 EUR/MWh reflects tight supply conditions driven by high residual load and the cost of dispatching thermal units and cross-border imports to close the gap.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden veil the turbines turn their slow entreaty, while coal furnaces breathe their ancient fire into the veins of a nation that hungers for more light than the sky will grant. The wires hum with borrowed power drawn from distant lands, a chorus of obligation etched in megawatts.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 29%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 17%
63%
Renewable share
10.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
13.4 GW
Solar
46.2 GW
Total generation
-17.8 GW
Net import
136.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.9°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
257
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 8.0 GW dominates the left quarter as a sprawling lignite complex with four massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into a heavy grey sky; hard coal 3.7 GW sits just right of the lignite plant as two smaller cooling towers and a coal conveyor belt with dark stockpiles; natural gas 5.3 GW occupies the centre-left as three compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks trailing thin vapour; biomass 4.4 GW appears centre as a cluster of medium-sized industrial buildings with cylindrical wood-chip silos and short chimneys releasing pale smoke; solar 13.4 GW spans the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces dull grey reflecting no sunlight under total overcast; wind onshore 8.6 GW fills the right third as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers turning moderately in the breeze across rolling green spring meadows; wind offshore 1.5 GW appears in the far-right background as a small cluster of turbines on the hazy horizon above a grey North Sea sliver; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete run-of-river dam with white water cascading, nestled in a valley at far right. The sky is entirely blanketed in low, oppressive stratiform cloud with no break — uniform cement-grey from horizon to zenith — conveying the high electricity price as atmospheric weight and tension. Lighting is full diffuse daytime at 09:00 in May, soft and shadowless, with cool blue-grey tones. Temperature near 9°C: spring vegetation is fresh green but trees not fully leafed, some bare branches, dew on grass. Wind at 13 km/h bends the grass gently. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with industrial precision — rich muted earth tones, visible confident brushwork, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 May 2026, 09:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-11T07:20 UTC · Download image