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Grid Poet — 12 May 2026, 21:00
Wind leads at 19.4 GW but 12.8 GW net imports and coal backstop an evening supply gap at high prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 21:00 on a cool May evening, German domestic generation totals 43.5 GW against 56.3 GW consumption, resulting in a net import of 12.8 GW. With solar offline and wind providing 19.4 GW combined, the renewable share stands at 58.4%, while thermal plants—brown coal at 7.6 GW, natural gas at 5.9 GW, and hard coal at 4.6 GW—fill much of the dispatchable gap. The day-ahead price of 142.7 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance, elevated import dependency, and the marginal cost of running significant fossil capacity during peak evening hours. Biomass at 4.6 GW and hydro at 1.4 GW provide steady baseload contributions rounding out the domestic mix.
Grid poem Claude AI
The dark sky hums with foreign current drawn across the borders, while coal towers exhale pale ghosts into a starless May night. Wind blades carve the blackness like slow scythes reaping invisible harvests no sun can claim.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 0%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 18%
58%
Renewable share
19.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
43.5 GW
Total generation
-12.7 GW
Net import
142.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.1°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
96.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
290
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 15.0 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice towers stretching across dark rolling hills; wind offshore 4.4 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of turbines standing in a black sea barely visible against the night sky. Brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left foreground as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps. Natural gas 5.9 GW fills the left-centre as a row of compact CCGT plants with slim single exhaust stacks venting thin plumes, glowing warmly from internal facility lighting. Hard coal 4.6 GW sits adjacent to the brown coal as a pair of large boiler houses with tall rectangular chimneys and conveyor belt structures, coal piles visible under floodlights. Biomass 4.6 GW appears in the centre as a modest industrial facility with cylindrical storage silos and a single low smokestack emitting a faint wisp. Hydro 1.4 GW is represented at far left as a small concrete dam with a dark river flowing beneath it, illuminated by a few security lights. The sky is completely dark—deep black-navy, no twilight, no sky glow, overcast at 96% cloud cover so no stars are visible, an oppressive low ceiling of invisible clouds pressing down. The only light sources are artificial: sodium-orange streetlights along a road in the middle ground, the warm glow of industrial facility windows, floodlights on coal yards, and red aviation warning lights blinking atop the wind turbines. The landscape is spring—fresh green grass and budding deciduous trees barely visible in the artificial light, temperature a cool 8°C suggested by a faint mist clinging to low ground. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich deep colour palette of blacks, dark blues, warm oranges, and industrial greys—visible confident brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the dark sky and artificially lit industrial structures, atmospheric depth with receding layers of turbines into darkness, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower surface texture, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 12 May 2026, 21:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-12T19:20 UTC · Download image