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Grid Poet — 13 May 2026, 12:00
Solar leads at 30.2 GW under full overcast, supported by 17.8 GW onshore wind and persistent coal baseload.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at midday on 13 May 2026 is dominated by renewables at 81.5%, with solar contributing 30.2 GW despite full cloud cover — diffuse radiation at 62 W/m² is sufficient to drive substantial PV output across Germany's large installed base. Onshore wind adds a strong 17.8 GW on moderate winds of 15.9 km/h, while offshore wind is notably subdued at just 0.4 GW. Thermal baseload remains significant: brown coal at 5.3 GW, hard coal at 3.5 GW, and natural gas at 3.4 GW continue to run, likely driven by scheduled commitments and ancillary service requirements. Generation exceeds consumption by 2.1 GW, producing a modest net export position, while the day-ahead price at 74.1 EUR/MWh sits at a moderate level consistent with residual thermal generation still setting the marginal price despite the renewable surplus.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky the silver fields drink what pale light remains, turning grey into current, grey into quiet abundance. Coal and wind stand shoulder to shoulder at the noon hour, uneasy partners in a kingdom slowly learning to let the old fires dim.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 46%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 8%
82%
Renewable share
18.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.2 GW
Solar
66.3 GW
Total generation
+2.1 GW
Net export
74.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.3°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 62.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
131
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 30.2 GW dominates the foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting a flat white-grey sky; wind onshore 17.8 GW fills the right half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning steadily in moderate wind; brown coal 5.3 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast; hard coal 3.5 GW appears beside them as a smaller power station with rectangular boiler buildings and a tall chimney stack trailing thin smoke; natural gas 3.4 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single polished exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer near centre-left; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a rounded silo and short smokestack amid green fields; hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small concrete run-of-river weir along a swollen spring river in the mid-distance; wind offshore 0.4 GW is barely hinted at as a faint silhouette of two turbines on the far horizon. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform, heavy, pewter-grey ceiling with no blue patches and no direct sun, but fully lit by bright midday diffuse daylight, casting soft shadowless illumination across the landscape. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green grass, budding deciduous trees with pale new leaves, cool 11°C atmosphere with a slight dampness in the air. The atmosphere is moderately oppressive, reflecting the 74.1 EUR/MWh price — clouds feel weighty and low. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective and depth, but meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's reinforced concrete hyperbolic curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 May 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-13T10:20 UTC · Download image