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Grid Poet — 28 May 2026, 20:00
Brown coal, gas, and hard coal dominate a 27 GW domestic supply meeting only half of 54 GW demand, driving extreme prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany is generating 27.0 GW domestically against 54.0 GW of consumption, requiring approximately 27.0 GW of net imports. The renewable share stands at 39.2%, driven primarily by biomass at 4.2 GW and a modest combined wind contribution of 2.3 GW, while solar contributes 2.3 GW from residual late-evening irradiance near sunset. Thermal generation is dominated by brown coal at 6.7 GW and natural gas at 7.0 GW, with hard coal adding 2.7 GW — a conventional dispatch stack responding to the substantial import requirement. The day-ahead price of 393.9 EUR/MWh reflects the tight domestic supply-demand balance and the heavy reliance on expensive marginal gas generation and cross-border imports during an evening demand period with low wind availability.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines stand nearly still as dusk surrenders to a coal-blackened night, and the grid reaches across every border, grasping for power it cannot forge alone. Furnaces roar their ancient hymn while the price of light climbs toward the darkening sky.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 8%
Biomass 16%
Hydro 7%
Natural gas 26%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 25%
39%
Renewable share
2.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.3 GW
Solar
27.0 GW
Total generation
-27.1 GW
Net import
393.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.8°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 122.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
405
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#1 The Spike #3 Wild Ride
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Brown coal 6.7 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into a dark, oppressive night sky; natural gas 7.0 GW occupies the centre-left as several compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting shimmering heat haze, lit by sodium-orange industrial lighting; hard coal 2.7 GW appears centre-right as a smaller coal plant with conveyor belts and a single squat cooling tower; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a substantial wood-chip-fired plant with a tall chimney and stacked fuel piles, positioned right of centre and lit by warm floodlights; solar 2.3 GW appears as a modest field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the right foreground, reflecting only artificial light, no sunlight; wind onshore 1.8 GW shows as a small row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, blades barely turning in the light breeze, their red aviation warning lights blinking; wind offshore 0.5 GW is a faint suggestion of turbines on a far horizon line; hydro 1.8 GW appears as a concrete dam structure in the right background with illuminated spillways. The sky is completely black with no twilight glow — it is 20:00 in late May, fully dark, deep navy-to-black sky with faint stars partially obscured by industrial haze and steam. The atmosphere is heavy, dense, and oppressive, conveying extreme electricity prices. Warm late-spring vegetation — lush green deciduous trees and grass — is barely visible in the sodium streetlight glow. Every surface gleams with artificial light: orange sodium lamps, white LED floodlights on industrial structures, glowing control-room windows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the black sky and the glowing industrial complex, atmospheric depth with layered smoke and steam, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 28 May 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-28T18:20 UTC · Download image