Grid Poet — 13 March 2026, 02:00
Massive 40 GW wind generation at night crushes prices to near-zero, driving 5.1 GW net exports from Germany.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 2 AM on a mid-March night, Germany's wind fleet is producing an extraordinary 40.1 GW combined (33.6 GW onshore, 6.5 GW offshore), driving the renewable share to 85.4%. Total generation of 52.8 GW exceeds consumption of 47.7 GW, resulting in a net export of approximately 5.1 GW to neighboring countries. The day-ahead price has collapsed to just 2.9 EUR/MWh, reflecting massive wind oversupply during low nocturnal demand. Fossil plants — brown coal at 2.8 GW, natural gas at 3.1 GW, and hard coal at 1.7 GW — are running near must-run minimums, unable to ramp down further due to technical constraints and ancillary service obligations.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades turn in the starless dark, whispering surplus power across sleeping borders. The old coal furnaces glow faintly, stubborn embers refusing the wind's dominion.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 64%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 5%
85%
Renewable share
40.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
52.8 GW
Total generation
+5.1 GW
Net export
2.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.8°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
98
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 33.6 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and aerodynamic nacelles stretching across rolling hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors spinning briskly; wind offshore 6.5 GW appears as a distant line of taller turbines on the far-right horizon above a dark sea; natural gas 3.1 GW occupies the left-centre as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks emitting thin pale plumes, warmly lit by sodium floodlights; brown coal 2.8 GW sits at the far left as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with faint white steam drifting upward, lit from below by amber industrial lights; hard coal 1.7 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a single tall chimney and conveyor belt just left of centre; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power plant with a squat stack and a gently glowing furnace visible through grated openings, positioned between the coal plants and the gas plant; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small illuminated dam and spillway at the far-left edge beside a river. The sky is completely black — deep night at 2 AM, no twilight, no sky glow — with a scattering of cold white stars visible through perfectly clear skies with zero cloud cover. Early spring landscape: bare deciduous trees with the first hints of buds, dormant brown grass and patches of old snow, temperature near 6°C. The low electricity price creates a calm, expansive, serene atmosphere — open dark sky, no oppressive haze. Sodium-orange and cool-white industrial lighting casts pools of warm and cold light on the ground, reflecting off turbine towers. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich deep colour palette of Prussian blues, lamp blacks, warm ambers, and cool silvers — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. The vast turbine army conveys the overwhelming dominance of wind power. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 March 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-13T03:10 UTC · Download image