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Grid Poet — 13 May 2026, 21:00
Wind leads at 12.7 GW but 18.9 GW net imports needed as solar is absent and thermal plants fill the gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 21:00 on a cool, overcast May evening, Germany's 56.1 GW demand significantly exceeds domestic generation of 37.2 GW, requiring approximately 18.9 GW of net imports. Wind onshore provides the largest single generation block at 12.7 GW, while thermal plants collectively deliver 18.0 GW — brown coal at 7.7 GW, natural gas at 6.1 GW, and hard coal at 4.2 GW — reflecting the post-sunset loss of solar and a moderate but insufficient wind regime. The day-ahead price of 160 EUR/MWh is elevated, consistent with the substantial import requirement and the need to dispatch higher-cost thermal units across the merit order during a period of tight supply.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless shroud the turbines turn, but coal and gas must answer what the wind alone cannot earn. The grid stretches its arms across the borders, drawing distant fire to feed the night's dark orders.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 0%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 21%
52%
Renewable share
13.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
37.2 GW
Total generation
-18.9 GW
Net import
160.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.5°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 3.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
334
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice towers stretching across rolling green hills, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; brown coal 7.7 GW fills the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the dark sky, glowing orange from internal furnace light; natural gas 6.1 GW occupies the centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with twin slim exhaust stacks venting thin vapour, lit by sodium-yellow industrial floodlights; hard coal 4.2 GW appears behind the gas plant as a smaller coal station with a single rectangular chimney and conveyor belt infrastructure, warmly lit; biomass 4.6 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a modest smokestack and timber storage yard, situated between the coal and wind sections; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a concrete dam spillway in the far background valley, small but visible with white water cascading; wind offshore 0.6 GW is barely suggested as a faint cluster of turbine aviation lights on the far horizon. TIME: 21:00 in May — fully dark night sky, deep navy-black, completely overcast with no stars or moon visible, heavy low cloud ceiling reflecting a dull amber industrial glow from below. Temperature 8.5°C: spring vegetation is lush green but the atmosphere feels cool and damp; bare-branched hedgerows mix with fresh leafy trees. The oppressive heavy cloud layer conveys the high electricity price — a thick, pressing atmosphere weighing on the landscape. Foreground: a wet country road with puddles reflecting the amber glow of a single sodium streetlight, leading the eye into the industrial middle ground. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark colour palette of burnt umber, Prussian blue, and ochre; visible impasto brushwork; dramatic chiaroscuro from artificial lighting against the black sky; atmospheric depth with misty layers between the facilities; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 May 2026, 21:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-13T19:20 UTC · Download image