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Grid Poet — 13 May 2026, 07:00
Onshore wind leads at 16.9 GW but full overcast, cool weather, and high demand drive 11 GW net imports and 141 EUR/MWh prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 07:00 on a fully overcast May morning, German consumption stands at 61.3 GW against domestic generation of 50.1 GW, requiring approximately 11.2 GW of net imports. Wind onshore leads generation at 16.9 GW, supported by 7.6 GW of solar despite complete cloud cover — consistent with diffuse irradiance at this hour — yielding a 63.5% renewable share. Thermal baseload remains substantial, with brown coal at 7.7 GW, natural gas at 6.1 GW, and hard coal at 4.5 GW, collectively backstopping the import gap. The day-ahead price of 141.1 EUR/MWh reflects tight supply-demand conditions, elevated thermal dispatch costs, and cross-border scarcity on a cool, overcast weekday morning.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky the turbines turn their iron hymns, while cooling towers breathe slow columns into the grey — the grid strains at its seams, fed by wind and ancient coal, buying what it cannot make from distant foreign shores. A cold May dawn without the sun, where every megawatt is earned.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 15%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 15%
64%
Renewable share
18.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
7.6 GW
Solar
50.1 GW
Total generation
-11.1 GW
Net import
141.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.7°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
253
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors visibly spinning in moderate wind; brown coal 7.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick grey-white steam plumes merging into the overcast sky; solar 7.6 GW appears as a large field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the centre-left middle ground, their surfaces dull and reflective under diffuse light with no direct sunshine; natural gas 6.1 GW is rendered as a pair of compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer placed just right of the coal plant; hard coal 4.5 GW shows as a smaller coal-fired station with a single rectangular stack and coal conveyor belts in the left middle ground; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fed CHP plant with a short rounded smokestack and steam wisps near centre; wind offshore 1.6 GW is suggested by a few distant turbines barely visible on the far horizon through haze; hydro 1.4 GW is a small concrete run-of-river dam and powerhouse at the bottom of a shallow valley in the right foreground. Time is 07:00 in mid-May: the sky is pale blue-grey pre-dawn light transitioning toward early morning, no direct sun visible, the entire dome of sky covered by thick, low, unbroken stratus clouds creating a heavy oppressive atmosphere reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is a chilly 6.7°C: spring vegetation is fresh green but subdued, grass glistening with morning dew, bare-branched trees just beginning to leaf out. The wind at 18 km/h bends the grass and ruffles the edges of the scene. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich muted earth tones, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth with layers of industrial haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower flute, and PV panel frame. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 May 2026, 07:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-13T05:20 UTC · Download image