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Grid Poet — 20 May 2026, 17:00
Solar (19 GW) and wind (14.7 GW) dominate but 10.5 GW net imports cover the evening demand gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 17:00 on a late-May evening, Germany's grid draws 58.4 GW against 47.9 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 10.5 GW of net imports. Solar contributes 19.0 GW despite 84% cloud cover, benefiting from the long daylight hours though direct irradiance is only 21 W/m²—this is predominantly diffuse light production and will decline sharply within the next two hours. Wind provides a combined 14.7 GW onshore and offshore, forming a solid renewable backbone alongside biomass and hydro, pushing the renewable share to 81.1%. The 99.4 EUR/MWh day-ahead price reflects the import requirement and the evening demand peak; brown coal at 5.4 GW and gas at 2.2 GW are providing baseload and flexibility support, entirely consistent with a high-demand shoulder period where solar is beginning its daily ramp-down.
Grid poem Claude AI
The overcast sky bleeds copper at its hem, and turbines turn their slow hymn into the dusk—while beneath the cloud ceiling, ten thousand silent panels drink the last diffuse breath of a fading May sun. Coal towers exhale pale columns into the twilight like prayers from a century that refuses to end.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 25%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 40%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 11%
81%
Renewable share
14.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.0 GW
Solar
47.9 GW
Total generation
-10.5 GW
Net import
99.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.0°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
84.0% / 21.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
138
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 19.0 GW occupies the right third of the canvas as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land, their surfaces reflecting a muted grey-white overcast sky; wind onshore 12.1 GW fills the centre-left as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers arrayed across rolling green hills, blades turning gently in moderate breeze; wind offshore 2.6 GW appears as a distant line of turbines on the far horizon above a grey-blue sea; brown coal 5.4 GW anchors the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy sky; biomass 3.9 GW is represented as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack with faint exhaust, nestled between the coal plant and the wind turbines; natural gas 2.2 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and a smaller cooling unit, placed just beside the coal complex; hard coal 1.4 GW is a single smaller power station with a rectangular chimney and coal conveyor belt visible at its base; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a dam and reservoir tucked into a valley in the middle distance. The time is 17:00 in late May—a dusk scene with the sky heavy and 84% overcast, low orange-red glow bleeding along the western horizon beneath a thick blanket of grey clouds, the upper sky darkening to slate blue. The atmosphere is oppressive and heavy, reflecting the high electricity price—the air feels dense and warm at 17°C, with lush green late-spring vegetation, wildflowers in meadows, and full deciduous canopy on scattered trees. Light is diffuse and flat, casting almost no shadows. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime—rich colour palette of greys, muted greens, warm amber at the horizon, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze softening distant elements, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 20 May 2026, 17:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-20T15:20 UTC · Download image