🎉 Grid Poet just got an upgrade! Faster data, better charts. Welcome to the new version. 🌱⚡
Grid Poet — 13 May 2026, 04:00
Strong onshore wind and lignite baseload anchor a 46.8 GW pre-dawn grid with zero solar and net imports of 1.6 GW.
Back
Grid analysis Claude AI
At 04:00 CEST, the German grid draws 46.8 GW against 45.2 GW of domestic generation, resulting in a net import of approximately 1.6 GW. Wind onshore at 18.9 GW and wind offshore at 3.2 GW together provide nearly half of total generation, lifting the renewable share to 61%. Thermal baseload remains substantial, with brown coal at 7.6 GW, natural gas at 5.8 GW, and hard coal at 4.2 GW dispatched to meet the residual load and provide system inertia during the pre-dawn trough. The day-ahead price of 111.2 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, consistent with marginal gas-fired generation setting the price amid moderate but not surplus wind output and zero solar contribution.
Grid poem Claude AI
Through the black and overcast hours the turbines churn relentlessly, their pale arms slicing a sky thick with coal-born steam. Beneath a starless vault the furnaces glow amber, feeding a nation that sleeps on a bed of spinning wind and smoldering lignite.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 42%
Wind offshore 7%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 17%
61%
Renewable share
22.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
45.2 GW
Total generation
-1.6 GW
Net import
111.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.8°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
271
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 18.9 GW dominates the right half and receding background as dozens of tall three-blade wind turbines with lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, their aviation warning lights blinking red; brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lamps; natural gas 5.8 GW sits left of centre as compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.2 GW appears as a conventional coal plant with rectangular boiler house and twin smokestacks trailing dark wisps, positioned behind the gas units; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a smaller industrial facility with a domed biogas digester and short chimney glowing faintly; wind offshore 3.2 GW is suggested on the distant far-right horizon as a faint line of turbine lights over a dark sea; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway in a valley at far left. Time is 04:00 at night — the sky is completely black, no twilight, no stars visible due to 98% overcast, a heavy low ceiling of clouds faintly reflecting the orange sodium glow of the industrial complex below. Temperature is a chilly 6.8°C in mid-May — sparse new spring foliage on deciduous trees, grass still dull and dew-covered. Wind at 18 km/h animates the turbine blades and bends young branches. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the elevated electricity price — thick clouds press down on the landscape. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, with rich dark tones, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth and mist, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower rib pattern, and gas-plant exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 May 2026, 04:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-13T02:20 UTC · Download image