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Grid Poet — 13 May 2026, 11:00
Solar (30 GW) and onshore wind (17.4 GW) dominate a 79% renewable midday grid with modest net exports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 11:00 on 13 May 2026, the German grid is generating 67.7 GW against 65.1 GW of consumption, producing a net export of 2.6 GW. Renewables supply 79.1% of generation, led by solar at 30.0 GW — a strong performance despite full cloud cover, likely driven by high diffuse irradiance — and onshore wind at 17.4 GW under moderate 18 km/h winds. Thermal baseload remains substantial: brown coal contributes 5.9 GW, hard coal 4.1 GW, and natural gas 4.2 GW, collectively providing 14.2 GW of conventional backup. The day-ahead price of 83.8 EUR/MWh is moderately elevated for a spring midday with high renewable share, suggesting either tight conditions on interconnectors or elevated fuel and carbon costs keeping thermal units in merit despite the renewable abundance.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a seamless pewter sky, a thousand silent panels drink the diffused light while turbines carve slow arcs through the spring wind's steady breath. Coal towers exhale their ancient carbon hymn, a stubborn chorus beneath the rising green tide.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 44%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 9%
79%
Renewable share
17.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.0 GW
Solar
67.7 GW
Total generation
+2.7 GW
Net export
83.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.1°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 158.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
147
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 30.0 GW dominates the centre and right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling spring farmland; onshore wind 17.4 GW fills the middle distance and right third as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily; brown coal 5.9 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast; natural gas 4.2 GW appears as a pair of compact CCGT units with slim exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails beside the cooling towers; hard coal 4.1 GW is rendered as a gritty coal-fired plant with a single large smokestack and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel; biomass 4.2 GW shows as a modest wood-clad industrial facility with a low plume on the left-centre; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam and spillway tucked into a wooded valley in the far background; offshore wind 0.5 GW is barely visible as tiny turbines on the hazy horizon line. The sky is entirely overcast with a uniform heavy grey-white cloud layer, yet diffuse daylight is bright and even — full midday luminosity with no direct sun and no shadows, giving the landscape a flat, pearlescent quality. Spring vegetation is fresh and green but still young, with budding trees and new grass at 11°C. The atmosphere feels slightly oppressive and heavy, reflecting the elevated electricity price — the air is dense, the clouds low and unyielding. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen: rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze and aerial perspective, dramatic compositional layering from industrial foreground to pastoral middle ground to misty horizon — yet every energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, blade pitch mechanisms, PV module bus-bars, cooling tower parabolic curvature, CCGT heat recovery units. No text, no labels, no people.
Grid data: 13 May 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-13T09:20 UTC · Download image