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Grid Poet — 26 May 2026, 20:00
High imports and thermal dispatch drive a 218 EUR/MWh evening price as wind and coal share domestic generation.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 20:00 on a warm late-May evening, German domestic generation stands at 33.4 GW against consumption of 56.8 GW, requiring approximately 23.4 GW of net imports. Renewables contribute 18.5 GW (55.4% of domestic generation), led by 10.8 GW of wind and supported by 4.1 GW of biomass, 1.9 GW of late-evening solar, and 1.7 GW of hydro. Thermal plants provide the remaining 14.9 GW, with brown coal at 5.2 GW, natural gas at 6.8 GW, and hard coal at 2.9 GW — all dispatched firmly to meet the substantial residual load of 23.4 GW. The day-ahead price of 217.9 EUR/MWh reflects the tight domestic supply-demand balance and heavy reliance on imports and expensive thermal generation during this warm evening peak.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun has slipped beneath the linden trees, yet furnaces rage on — coal towers exhale their ancient breath into the warm May dark, while turbine blades carve slow arcs against a sky that owes the grid no mercy. Import cables hum beneath the borders, pulling power from distant lands to feed a nation's luminous hunger.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 6%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 20%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 16%
55%
Renewable share
10.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.9 GW
Solar
33.4 GW
Total generation
-23.4 GW
Net import
217.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.7°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
19.0% / 119.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
293
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 8.0 GW spans the right third of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across gentle rolling hills, their rotors turning slowly in light breeze; brown coal 5.2 GW dominates the left foreground as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white-grey steam plumes rising into the dark sky, adjacent open-pit lignite conveyors visible; natural gas 6.8 GW occupies the centre-left as a cluster of compact CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 2.9 GW appears behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional coal station with a single squat cooling tower and coal bunker; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with rounded wood-chip silos and a modest smokestack glowing warmly, positioned centre-right; wind offshore 2.8 GW is suggested by distant turbines visible on a far horizon line beyond a river estuary; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a concrete dam with spillway in the middle distance nestled in a forested valley; solar 1.9 GW is shown as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground catching the very last residual glow, almost dark. TIME: 20:00 in late May — the sky is deep navy-black overhead, no twilight remains, only the faintest dark blue band at the western horizon; all illumination comes from sodium-orange streetlights along roads, glowing industrial facility windows, and the incandescent glow of furnaces inside the coal plants. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, hazy warm air at 27.7°C with barely any wind motion visible in the vegetation — lush green late-spring foliage on deciduous trees, full canopy, wildflowers in meadows. Clouds are minimal, only a few wisps, revealing scattered stars above. The overall mood is tense and industrially magnificent: the warm night presses down while the infrastructure blazes with artificial light. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich deep colour palette of navy, amber, ochre, and warm grey; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with layers of haze between foreground industry and distant wind turbines; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and panel frame; dramatic chiaroscuro between the dark sky and the glowing industrial heart of the scene. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 26 May 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-26T18:20 UTC · Download image