Grid Poet — 11 March 2026, 22:00
Wind leads at 24 GW but brown coal at 10.6 GW and gas at 5.9 GW fill the nighttime gap, with 5.3 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 22:00 on a mild March night, Germany draws 53.6 GW while domestic generation reaches only 48.3 GW, requiring approximately 5.3 GW of net imports. Wind dominates renewables at 24.0 GW combined (onshore 18.9 GW + offshore 5.1 GW), yet the 98% cloud cover and nighttime conditions yield zero solar. Brown coal remains a heavy baseload anchor at 10.6 GW, supplemented by 5.9 GW of natural gas and 2.5 GW of hard coal, driving the residual load to 29.6 GW. The day-ahead price of 119.3 EUR/MWh is elevated, reflecting the tight supply-demand balance and reliance on expensive thermal dispatch to complement wind.
Grid poem Claude AI
Turbines howl beneath a starless vault, their pale arms reaching through the coal-stained dark. The grid groans under its nocturnal burden, burning lignite's ancient debt to bridge the gap between the wind and want.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 22%
61%
Renewable share
24.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
48.3 GW
Total generation
-5.3 GW
Net import
119.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.9°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
279
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 18.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills, rotors turning steadily; wind offshore 5.1 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea; brown coal 10.6 GW occupies the left third as massive hyperbolic cooling towers belching thick white-grey steam plumes into the black sky, with conveyor belts and open-pit mine edges faintly lit by sodium lamps; natural gas 5.9 GW fills the left-centre as compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks and glowing orange flare tips; hard coal 2.5 GW sits as a smaller conventional power station with a single square cooling tower and a coal pile beside it, illuminated by industrial floodlights; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a cluster of medium-sized industrial buildings with wood-chip silos and short chimneys emitting thin wispy exhaust, positioned centre-right; hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam structure with spillway at the far centre-left, water gleaming under a single arc lamp. TIME: 22:00 — completely dark sky, deep navy-black, no twilight glow whatsoever, no moon visible, dense 98% overcast erasing all stars. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive reflecting the high electricity price — low thick clouds press down, lit from below by the orange-sodium glow of industrial facilities. Temperature 8.9°C mild early spring: bare deciduous trees with first tiny buds, damp green grass, patches of mist in low valleys. Wind is light at ground level (4.3 km/h) so ground-level fog lingers, but turbine rotors high above still turn from stronger winds aloft. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich dark colour palette of deep indigo, coal-black, warm sodium-orange, and steam-white; visible impasto brushwork; dramatic atmospheric depth with layers of industrial haze; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and CCGT exhaust stack. The scene evokes a brooding Caspar David Friedrich landscape reimagined for the industrial energy age. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 March 2026, 22:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-11T22:36 UTC · Download image