Grid Poet — 11 March 2026, 18:00
Wind leads at 29 GW but 10.7 GW brown coal and 9.9 GW net imports are needed to meet strong evening peak demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on a March evening, the sun has set and solar generation is zero. Wind dominates renewables at 29.0 GW combined (onshore 23.0 GW + offshore 6.0 GW), delivering strong output under moderate wind conditions and full cloud cover. Despite a 63% renewable share, domestic generation totals only 55.4 GW against 65.3 GW consumption, requiring a net import of 9.9 GW. The day-ahead price of 153.1 EUR/MWh is sharply elevated, reflecting the tight supply-demand balance, high fossil dispatch (brown coal 10.7 GW, gas 7.1 GW, hard coal 2.7 GW), and evening peak demand pressure.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines howl across a blackening plain where lignite towers breathe their ancient fire, while invisible rivers of power pour across the borders to feed the hungry evening hour. A nation leans into the wind, yet still the furnaces must burn to hold the dark at bay.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 42%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 0%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 19%
63%
Renewable share
29.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
55.4 GW
Total generation
-9.8 GW
Net import
153.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.6°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
257
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 23.0 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling hills into the distance, rotors spinning visibly in moderate wind; wind offshore 6.0 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon over a grey sea glimpsed through a valley. Brown coal 10.7 GW occupies the left third as massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast sky, alongside conveyor belts and open-pit mine terraces. Natural gas 7.1 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT power station with tall slender exhaust stacks and smaller vapour trails. Hard coal 2.7 GW appears as a single coal plant with a square chimney and coal stockpile in the mid-left. Biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a medium-sized industrial facility with a woodchip storage dome and low exhaust, positioned centre-right. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam with spillway visible in the foreground valley. The sky is dusk at 18:00 in March: a narrow band of deep orange-red glow on the western horizon rapidly fading upward into slate-grey and near-black overcast clouds — 100% cloud cover, no stars, no blue sky. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the very high electricity price. Temperature is mild at 10.6°C: early spring — bare deciduous trees with the faintest buds, patches of green grass, no snow. Overhead high-voltage transmission lines with steel pylons cross the scene, symbolising the large net imports. Sodium streetlights glow along a road in the foreground. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro. Meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 March 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-11T19:36 UTC · Download image