🎉 Grid Poet just got an upgrade! Faster data, better charts. Welcome to the new version. 🌱⚡
Grid Poet — 21 May 2026, 00:00
Wind and brown coal dominate overnight generation as Germany exports 18.3 GW of excess power at midnight.
Back
Grid analysis Claude AI
At midnight on 21 May 2026, Germany generates 61.9 GW against a consumption of 43.6 GW, yielding a net export position of 18.3 GW. Despite being a nighttime hour with zero solar irradiance, the system reports 21.1 GW of solar generation — this is almost certainly a data anomaly, as direct radiation is 0 W/m² and the timestamp is 00:00 local time. Wind generation totals 16.1 GW (13.7 onshore, 2.4 offshore) and provides the bulk of genuine renewable output, while brown coal contributes a substantial 10.2 GW as inflexible baseload. The day-ahead price of 133 EUR/MWh is notably high for a period of significant oversupply, suggesting either forward congestion pricing, high gas reference costs, or cross-border demand dynamics driving the clearing price upward.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines hum beneath a moonless vault while coal furnaces blaze their ancient creed — a land that makes more power than it needs pours its restless surplus into the dark. Midnight's excess floods across the borders, yet the market, stubborn as embers, refuses to cool.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 34%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 16%
69%
Renewable share
16.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.1 GW
Solar
61.9 GW
Total generation
+18.3 GW
Net export
133.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.1°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
23.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
222
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.2 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the night sky, lit from below by orange sodium lights of an industrial complex with conveyor belts and lignite bunkers; wind onshore 13.7 GW fills the centre and right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling dark hills, their red aviation warning lights blinking in sequence; wind offshore 2.4 GW appears as a distant line of turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark river or lake reflecting faint industrial glow; natural gas 4.8 GW is rendered as two compact CCGT plants with slim exhaust stacks and smaller visible heat-recovery units in the centre-left, lit by harsh white facility lighting; hard coal 4.1 GW sits beside the brown coal complex as a smaller power station with a single large smokestack and coal yard; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a domed storage silo and a low steam plume near the centre; hydro 1.5 GW is a small dam and powerhouse visible in a valley in the mid-ground, water gleaming faintly. The sky is completely dark — deep black-navy with no twilight, no sky glow, no moon — only scattered stars partially visible through 23% thin cloud wisps. The air feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: haze hangs around the cooling towers, and the atmosphere presses down on the landscape. Spring vegetation — fresh green grass and leafy deciduous trees — is barely visible in the peripheral sodium-lamp glow, consistent with 12°C mild conditions. Light wind barely stirs the grass. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of Prussian blues, umber, and amber industrial glow — with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 21 May 2026, 00:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-20T22:20 UTC · Download image