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Grid Poet — 22 May 2026, 01:00
Brown coal dominates overnight generation at 9.3 GW as light winds and absent solar keep thermal plants firmly dispatched.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 01:00 on 22 May 2026, Germany's generation portfolio is heavily thermal, with brown coal providing 9.3 GW (33% of total output), natural gas 6.1 GW, and hard coal 3.7 GW, together accounting for 68% of the 28.1 GW dispatched. Renewables contribute 8.8 GW (31.6%), primarily from biomass at 4.0 GW, with modest wind output of 3.4 GW combined onshore and offshore reflecting the light 6.2 km/h winds, and zero solar as expected at this hour. The reported consumption of 0.0 GW against 28.1 GW of generation implies a substantial net export of approximately 28.1 GW, likely reflecting a data reporting anomaly, as such volumes would exceed interconnector capacity. The day-ahead price of 136.9 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, consistent with tight supply conditions across the broader European market or high fuel and carbon costs keeping marginal thermal units expensive.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a moonless vault the furnaces of Lusatia breathe their ancient carbon skyward, towers crowned in white steam like sentinels of an era that will not yet sleep. The turbines on the ridge turn slowly, outnumbered, their whispered promise drowned in the roar of coal.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 13%
Brown coal 33%
32%
Renewable share
3.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
28.1 GW
Total generation
+28.1 GW
Net export
136.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.6°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
480
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.3 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers rising against the night, thick white steam plumes billowing upward and lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 6.1 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin vapour, its steel structure bathed in harsh industrial floodlight; hard coal 3.7 GW appears centre-right as a smaller conventional power station with a single fat smokestack and conveyor belts leading to a coal bunker, glowing under amber work lights; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a modest rectangular boiler house and a short chimney trailing faint grey smoke, positioned right of centre; wind onshore 2.0 GW is shown as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a low ridge in the right background, red aviation warning lights blinking on nacelles, blades turning slowly; wind offshore 1.4 GW is suggested by distant turbine silhouettes on the far-right horizon over a dark estuary, each topped with a tiny red dot; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a wooded valley at the far right edge, water gleaming faintly. The sky is completely black — no twilight, no moon glow — a deep navy-to-black vault with scattered stars partly obscured by the rising steam. The overall atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: the air feels dense, the steam hangs low, halos form around every artificial light. Spring vegetation — fresh green leaves on deciduous trees lining a road in the foreground — is visible only where floodlights catch it, temperature around 13°C suggested by light mist at ground level. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette with dramatic chiaroscuro, visible impasto brushwork on the steam plumes and night sky, atmospheric depth created by layered industrial haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower reinforcement rib, and gas-plant exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 22 May 2026, 01:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-21T23:20 UTC · Download image