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Grid Poet — 20 May 2026, 08:00
Wind and solar lead at 25.6 GW but full overcast and strong demand drive 18.4 GW thermal and 12.1 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 08:00 on a fully overcast May morning, German renewables deliver 31.1 GW (62.8% of generation), led by 13.9 GW of combined wind and 11.7 GW of diffuse-light solar, supplemented by 4.3 GW biomass and 1.2 GW hydro. Thermal plants supply 18.4 GW, with brown coal providing a substantial 8.4 GW baseload tranche alongside 4.5 GW hard coal and 5.5 GW natural gas. Domestic generation of 49.5 GW falls short of 61.6 GW consumption, implying a net import of approximately 12.1 GW — consistent with a strong morning demand ramp under overcast skies limiting solar yield. The day-ahead price of 125.5 EUR/MWh reflects this tight supply-demand balance, elevated thermal dispatch, and cross-border procurement costs during peak continental morning load.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden ceiling the turbines turn like pale sentinels, while furnace-glow from Lusatian towers pours its ancient carbon breath into the restless morning air. The grid stretches taut as a drawn bowstring — every megawatt claimed before it is born.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 24%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 17%
63%
Renewable share
13.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
11.7 GW
Solar
49.5 GW
Total generation
-12.1 GW
Net import
125.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.9°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
262
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 8.4 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers rising from a Lusatian open-pit landscape, thick white steam plumes merging with the overcast sky; hard coal 4.5 GW appears just right of centre-left as a pair of tall brick chimneys and boiler houses with dark smoke wisps; natural gas 5.5 GW occupies the centre as compact modern CCGT plants with slim silver exhaust stacks and faint heat shimmer; wind onshore 10.0 GW fills the right-centre as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers spread across rolling green hills, blades visibly in motion from moderate winds; wind offshore 3.9 GW appears in the far right background as a row of turbines on a grey North Sea horizon barely visible through haze; solar 11.7 GW is rendered as wide fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground, but reflecting only dull grey sky — no sun, no glint, completely diffuse light; biomass 4.3 GW shows as a wooden-clad combined heat and power plant with a small smokestack amid timber yards in the middle distance; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a modest concrete run-of-river weir with churning white water in the lower-right foreground. The sky is an unbroken 100% overcast blanket of thick stratiform cloud, uniformly grey-white with no blue or sun patches, lit by full but flat May-morning daylight at 08:00; the atmosphere feels heavy, oppressive, hinting at the high electricity price. Spring vegetation is lush green — fresh beech and birch leaves, meadow grass — at 12.9°C with a cool damp feel. Wind bends the grass and ripples puddles. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth crossed with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the steam-white towers and the dark industrial foreground. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor nacelles, lattice towers, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT stainless stacks. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 20 May 2026, 08:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-20T06:20 UTC · Download image