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Grid Poet — 13 May 2026, 05:00
Pre-dawn wind dominance at 21 GW meets strong coal and gas thermal backup as Germany net-imports 5.2 GW.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 05:00 on 13 May, onshore wind provides 18.5 GW and is the dominant source, complemented by 2.7 GW offshore, delivering a combined 60% renewable share despite zero solar contribution before dawn. Thermal baseload remains substantial: brown coal at 7.6 GW, natural gas at 5.9 GW, and hard coal at 4.2 GW together supply 17.7 GW, reflecting the need to firm up the 5.2 GW gap between domestic generation of 44.6 GW and consumption of 49.8 GW. The system requires approximately 5.2 GW of net imports to balance load. The day-ahead price of 120 EUR/MWh is elevated for a low-demand overnight hour, likely driven by tight thermal margins across the interconnected system, firm gas prices, and the residual load still calling on hard coal and gas units.
Grid poem Claude AI
Before the sun dares lift its face, coal fires glow beneath a windswept sky, turbines turning ceaselessly through the grey-blue half-light of a cold May dawn. The grid inhales the continent's borrowed current, its hunger deeper than the darkness overhead.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 41%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 17%
60%
Renewable share
21.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.1 GW
Solar
44.6 GW
Total generation
-5.2 GW
Net import
120.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.6°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
276
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 18.5 GW dominates the right two-fifths of the scene as dozens of three-blade wind turbines with white lattice towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling central-German farmland into the distance; brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes lit by amber sodium lamps; natural gas 5.9 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks and glowing turbine halls; hard coal 4.2 GW sits just left of centre as a coal-fired plant with a large rectangular boiler house and a single wide chimney trailing dark smoke; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip plant with a domed storage silo and a short stack emitting pale vapour; wind offshore 2.7 GW is glimpsed as a row of turbines on a far hazy horizon line suggesting the North Sea; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with turbine house beside a dark reflective river in the foreground. Solar is absent — no panels visible anywhere. The sky is pre-dawn at 05:00 in May: deep blue-grey with the faintest pale steel-blue lightening at the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, stars fading overhead, 100% cloud cover forming a heavy low overcast that presses down oppressively reflecting the 120 EUR/MWh price tension. Temperature is 6.6°C: early spring vegetation is fresh green but muted in the darkness, patches of dew on grass. Wind at 14 km/h sets turbine blades in visible rotation and bends young birch trees slightly. Sodium streetlights cast orange pools along a road winding through the scene. Industrial facility windows glow warm yellow. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich dark colour palette of indigo, slate, amber, and coal-black, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between artificial light and the brooding pre-dawn sky. Meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 May 2026, 05:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-13T03:20 UTC · Download image