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Grid Poet — 14 May 2026, 23:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal anchor a 27.7 GW domestic supply; 16.3 GW net imports cover the remaining nighttime demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 23:00 on a cool May night, German consumption stands at 44.0 GW against domestic generation of only 27.7 GW, implying net imports of approximately 16.3 GW — a substantial draw on interconnectors. Renewables contribute 10.2 GW (36.8% of generation), almost entirely from wind (4.4 GW combined) and biomass (4.4 GW), with solar naturally absent at this hour. Fossil thermal plants carry the bulk of domestic supply: brown coal leads at 7.4 GW, followed by natural gas at 6.1 GW and hard coal at 4.1 GW. The day-ahead price of 136.3 EUR/MWh reflects the tight domestic supply-demand balance, near-calm wind conditions (1.8 km/h), and heavy reliance on imports and marginal thermal units to cover late-evening load.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless vault of iron cloud, the furnaces of lignite and gas burn on — their tireless breath the only warmth in a still, importing night. The turbines stand like sentinels asleep, while distant borders hum with borrowed power.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 7%
Biomass 16%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 15%
Brown coal 27%
37%
Renewable share
4.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.7 GW
Total generation
-16.3 GW
Net import
136.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.5°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
436
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.4 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights; natural gas 6.1 GW occupies the centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with twin exhaust stacks venting thin grey plumes, steel-clad turbine halls glowing with interior light; hard coal 4.1 GW appears centre-right as a dark angular power station with conveyor belts and a tall single chimney trailing smoke; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a modest wood-fired plant with a rounded silo and shorter stack near the centre; wind onshore 2.3 GW and wind offshore 2.1 GW appear as a sparse line of three-blade turbines on the far right horizon, their rotors nearly motionless in the calm air, red aviation warning lights blinking; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small dam structure at the far right edge with a faint white water spill. The sky is completely black-to-deep-navy, heavily overcast at 100% cloud cover — no stars, no moon, no twilight glow — only the sodium-yellow and white artificial lights of the industrial facilities illuminate the scene. The air is cool at 7.5°C; spring vegetation is lush but dark, barely visible. A sense of heavy, oppressive atmosphere pervades the sky, reflecting the high 136.3 EUR/MWh electricity price. The landscape is a broad, flat German river valley. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, atmospheric sfumato in the steam plumes — yet every engineering detail is meticulous: lattice turbine towers, aluminium nacelles, concrete cooling tower ribbing, riveted steel stacks. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 14 May 2026, 23:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-14T21:20 UTC · Download image