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Grid Poet — 13 May 2026, 23:00
Wind leads at 14.5 GW but heavy thermal dispatch and net imports meet strong late-night demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 23:00 on a cool May night, German consumption stands at 49.2 GW against 39.0 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 10.2 GW of net imports. Onshore wind provides a solid 14.5 GW base, but with zero solar contribution at this hour, thermal plants fill a significant share: brown coal at 7.7 GW, natural gas at 6.1 GW, and hard coal at 4.2 GW. The day-ahead price of 123.1 EUR/MWh is elevated, consistent with the substantial residual load and the reliance on marginal-cost thermal units during a period when solar is unavailable. Renewable share holds at 53.7%, driven almost entirely by wind and biomass, a respectable figure for a late-night hour under full cloud cover.
Grid poem Claude AI
Coal furnaces breathe their amber glow into a starless, windswept night, while turbine blades carve silence from the dark. The grid hums heavy with the cost of hours the sun refuses to attend.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 37%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 20%
54%
Renewable share
15.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
39.0 GW
Total generation
-10.2 GW
Net import
123.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.9°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
321
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.7 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the blackness, lit from below by amber sodium lights; natural gas 6.1 GW fills the centre-left as compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heated plumes, illuminated by industrial floodlights; hard coal 4.2 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal-fired station with a single rectangular stack and conveyor belts, glowing under harsh white work lights; onshore wind 14.5 GW spans the entire right third and extends into the background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking in rhythmic patterns against the pure black sky, blades visibly turning in moderate wind; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip silo and a modest smokestack emitting pale vapour; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam structure in the far background with water catching faint reflected light; offshore wind 0.6 GW is a barely visible pair of turbines on the distant horizon. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, no stars visible due to 100% cloud cover creating an oppressive low ceiling that traps and diffuses the industrial light into a sickly orange-amber haze. The landscape is a flat northern German plain with fresh spring grass barely visible in the artificial light, temperature around 8°C suggested by faint mist near the ground. The atmosphere feels heavy and costly, the overcast pressing down. No solar panels anywhere, no sunlight. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark colour palette of deep indigos, burnt umbers, and amber golds, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with industrial light scattering through low clouds. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometries. The scene evokes Caspar David Friedrich reimagined for the industrial age — sublime, vast, and quietly imposing. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 May 2026, 23:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-13T21:20 UTC · Download image