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Grid Poet — 25 May 2026, 23:00
Coal, gas, and wind share generation while 14.4 GW of net imports cover nighttime demand at elevated prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 23:00 on a late-May evening, German consumption sits at 42.0 GW against domestic generation of 27.6 GW, implying net imports of approximately 14.4 GW. Renewables contribute 13.1 GW (47.4% of generation), led by 7.4 GW of combined wind and 4.2 GW of biomass, with solar naturally absent at this hour. Thermal plants provide the remaining 14.5 GW, split across brown coal (5.9 GW), natural gas (5.3 GW), and hard coal (3.3 GW). The day-ahead price of 141 EUR/MWh is elevated, consistent with the substantial import requirement and the need for coal and gas dispatch at scale during a period of moderate wind output.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a moonless vault the furnaces exhale, coal towers breathing columns into the starless dark, while scattered turbine blades carve slow arcs through the warm spring night. The grid stretches its copper veins across borders, drawing distant power to feed a nation's unrelenting demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 5%
Biomass 15%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 19%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 21%
47%
Renewable share
7.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
27.6 GW
Total generation
-14.4 GW
Net import
141.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.5°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
34.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
359
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 5.9 GW dominates the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into a black night sky, lit from below by amber sodium lamps; natural gas 5.3 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, their metal casings glowing under industrial floodlights; wind onshore 5.9 GW fills the centre-right as a row of seven tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers slowly turning in moderate breeze, red aviation warning lights blinking on their nacelles; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a cluster of smaller industrial buildings with wood-chip conveyors and short stacks emitting pale vapour, warmly lit from within; hard coal 3.3 GW sits to the far right as a coal-fired station with a single large smokestack and visible coal bunkers under harsh white spotlights; wind offshore 1.5 GW is barely visible on the distant dark horizon as faint red lights in a line; hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small dam structure in the mid-ground with water glinting under a single floodlight. The sky is completely black with no twilight or sky glow, only a scattering of stars visible between 34% partial cloud cover rendered as dark grey masses. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a humid late-spring night at 17.5°C with lush green vegetation dimly visible in the foreground, spring wildflowers and tall grass swaying gently. High-voltage transmission lines cross the scene, cables glinting faintly. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich, dark palette of deep navy, amber, and charcoal with visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro lighting from industrial sources against the encompassing darkness, atmospheric depth with haze around the cooling tower plumes, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, rotor blade, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 25 May 2026, 23:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-25T21:20 UTC · Download image