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Grid Poet — 20 May 2026, 03:00
Wind leads at 16.4 GW with coal and gas backing nighttime demand; 4.1 GW net imports fill the gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 03:00 on 20 May 2026, Germany's grid draws 43.3 GW against 39.2 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 4.1 GW of net imports. Wind generation is robust at 16.4 GW combined (onshore 11.9, offshore 4.5), contributing the largest share. Lignite and hard coal together provide 12.1 GW of baseload, with natural gas adding 5.3 GW — thermal dispatch levels consistent with the 110 EUR/MWh day-ahead price, which reflects moderate overnight demand met partly through imports and merit-order gas units at the margin. The 55.5% renewable share is solid for a nighttime hour with zero solar, sustained entirely by wind, biomass, and hydro.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless vault of cloud, the turbines carve their restless hymn while coal-fire lungs exhale slow pillars into the weighted dark. The grid drinks deeper than it brews, and distant borders lend their quiet current to keep the sleeping nation lit.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 21%
56%
Renewable share
16.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
39.2 GW
Total generation
-4.1 GW
Net import
110.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.1°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
313
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 11.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills, rotors spinning visibly in strong wind. Wind offshore 4.5 GW appears in the far right background as a cluster of offshore turbines barely visible on a dark horizon line above a faintly glinting sea. Brown coal 8.1 GW occupies the left third as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the overcast sky, beside conveyor belts and open-pit silhouettes. Natural gas 5.3 GW fills the centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks trailing thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 4.0 GW sits adjacent to the brown coal complex as a smaller station with a prominent smokestack and coal bunker. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with a modest stack and piled woodchip stores. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam structure with flowing water visible at lower-left edge. Time is 03:00 — completely dark, black sky with total 100% cloud cover obscuring all stars, no twilight, no sky glow whatsoever. Lighting comes only from sodium-orange streetlights along access roads, red aviation warning lights on turbine nacelles and stacks, and warm industrial glow from plant windows and floodlit yards. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, humid spring air at 12°C with mist clinging to the ground between turbines, reflecting the high electricity price. Spring vegetation — fresh green grass and leafing deciduous trees — is barely perceptible in the artificial light. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, deep colour palette of indigo, umber, and warm sodium orange, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, aluminium-framed structures, hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with realistic steam physics, CCGT exhaust stacks with heat distortion. The scene feels like a masterwork painting of the industrial nocturne. No text, no labels, no UI elements.
Grid data: 20 May 2026, 03:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-20T01:20 UTC · Download image