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Grid Poet — 11 May 2026, 13:00
Wind and diffuse solar dominate under full overcast, with brown coal and net imports bridging a 5.2 GW gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 13:00 on a fully overcast May day, renewables supply 79.3% of German consumption at 61.5 GW. Wind contributes a combined 18.1 GW (onshore 14.9, offshore 3.2) and is the single largest source, while solar delivers 21.1 GW despite complete cloud cover—consistent with high diffuse irradiance at midday under a bright overcast. Domestic generation totals 56.3 GW against 61.5 GW consumption, implying a net import of approximately 5.2 GW, which aligns with the residual load figure and supports the relatively elevated day-ahead price of 98.8 EUR/MWh. Brown coal remains the largest thermal contributor at 6.4 GW, with hard coal at 2.5 GW and gas at 2.8 GW providing additional baseload and balancing capacity—an unremarkable dispatch pattern given the moderate renewable output and import requirement.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a pewter sky the turbines turn their tireless hymn, while buried lignite feeds its ancient fire to close the gap the clouds refuse to fill. The grid breathes inward, drawing power across its borders like a lung that cannot yet exhale.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 37%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 11%
79%
Renewable share
18.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.1 GW
Solar
56.3 GW
Total generation
-5.2 GW
Net import
98.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.5°C / 19 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 12.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
150
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 21.1 GW fills the broad centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling farmland, their surfaces reflecting flat white-grey light under complete overcast; wind onshore 14.9 GW dominates the left half and middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning briskly in moderate wind; wind offshore 3.2 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far horizon above a grey sea glimpsed through a low valley; brown coal 6.4 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting heavy white-grey steam plumes that merge into the overcast; biomass 4.0 GW sits as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall cylindrical stack and wood-chip storage silos near the coal station; natural gas 2.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single polished exhaust stack and slim heat-recovery unit beside the biomass plant; hard coal 2.5 GW shows as a smaller conventional station with a single rectangular boiler building and squat chimney with faint grey exhaust; hydro 1.4 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir and turbine house nestled along a stream in the lower right foreground. The sky is a uniform dense blanket of stratiform cloud at 100% cover, bright but sunless, casting flat shadowless midday daylight across the scene—no blue sky visible anywhere. The landscape is early-May central German countryside: fresh green grass, young beech leaves, scattered wildflowers, cool 8.5 °C atmosphere with a slight chill suggested by mist clinging to low ground. The mood is heavy and oppressive, reflecting a high electricity price—the cloud ceiling feels low and pressing. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 May 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-11T11:20 UTC · Download image