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Grid Poet — 13 May 2026, 16:00
Wind and solar together deliver 38.8 GW; thermal plants and net imports cover the remaining 4 GW residual load.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 16:00 on a mid-May afternoon, the German grid draws 59.9 GW against 55.9 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 4.0 GW of net imports. Renewables account for 79.4% of generation, led by solar at 21.3 GW under partly cloudy skies and a strong onshore wind contribution of 16.9 GW. Brown coal provides 5.5 GW of baseload with hard coal at 2.5 GW and gas at 3.5 GW, collectively covering the residual load of 4.1 GW alongside the import balance. The day-ahead price of 92.4 EUR/MWh is moderately elevated, consistent with afternoon demand peaks and the need for thermal and cross-border support despite high renewable output.
Grid poem Claude AI
The wind howls across a thousand spinning blades while sunlight fractures through restless clouds, painting gold on silicon fields. Beneath this green canopy, ancient coal still breathes its grey hymn, a stubborn bass note in the renewable chorus.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 38%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 10%
79%
Renewable share
17.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.3 GW
Solar
55.9 GW
Total generation
-4.1 GW
Net import
92.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.9°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
58.0% / 235.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
146
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 21.3 GW dominates the foreground and right side as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green May hillsides, angled toward a sun partially veiled by broken cumulus clouds. Wind onshore 16.9 GW fills the middle and left background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors visibly turning in a strong breeze, spread across ridgelines. Brown coal 5.5 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes drifting eastward. Biomass 4.0 GW is represented by a medium-sized plant with a rectangular stack and wood-chip storage area nestled among trees in the mid-ground. Natural gas 3.5 GW sits beside the coal as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack emitting a thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 2.5 GW is a smaller power station with a single square cooling tower and conveyor belt visible. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a modest dam with cascading water at the far right edge. Wind offshore 0.6 GW is faintly suggested as tiny turbines on the distant hazy horizon line. The lighting is full late-afternoon daylight at 16:00 in May — the sun at a moderately low western angle casting long warm shadows, but filtered through 58% cloud cover creating a mix of bright patches and soft diffused light. The sky feels slightly heavy and hazy, suggesting the elevated 92.4 EUR/MWh price — not ominous but weighted, with warm amber and muted grey tones in the clouds. Spring vegetation is lush bright green, wildflowers dotting meadows, deciduous trees in full leaf at 12.9°C. Style: 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 confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective fading distant turbines into haze, meticulous engineering detail on every technology element. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 May 2026, 16:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-13T14:20 UTC · Download image