Grid Poet — 13 March 2026, 03:00
Massive overnight onshore wind (34.2 GW) overwhelms low demand, crashing prices to 1.1 EUR/MWh and driving 4.9 GW net exports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 03:00 on a mid-March night, Germany's wind fleet is the commanding force: 34.2 GW onshore and 6.5 GW offshore together deliver 75.9% of total generation, with renewables overall at 85.3%. Total generation of 53.6 GW exceeds domestic consumption of 48.7 GW, yielding a net export of 4.9 GW to neighboring grids. The day-ahead price has collapsed to just 1.1 EUR/MWh — essentially near-zero — reflecting the massive overnight wind surplus against low nighttime demand. Fossil baseload plants (brown coal 2.8 GW, hard coal 1.8 GW, gas 3.2 GW) remain online at minimum stable generation levels, likely constrained by must-run obligations and the need for spinning reserves, even as the market signals they are economically superfluous.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades carve the midnight wind, their tireless hymn drowning the coal fires to whispered embers beneath a starless March sky. Power floods outward across sleeping borders, sold for a pittance, as the turbines reign sovereign over the dark empire of the grid.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 64%
Wind offshore 12%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 5%
85%
Renewable share
40.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
53.6 GW
Total generation
+4.9 GW
Net export
1.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.7°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
50% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
98
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 34.2 GW dominates the entire right two-thirds of the canvas as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers receding deep into the landscape, rotors spinning in moderate wind; wind offshore 6.5 GW appears at the far right horizon as a cluster of larger turbines rising from a dark sea inlet; biomass 3.9 GW occupies the left-centre as a modest industrial plant with timber-clad fuel silos and a low warm-lit smokestack emitting faint steam; natural gas 3.2 GW sits centre-left as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a gently glowing turbine hall; brown coal 2.8 GW fills the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thin white steam plumes, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite bunkers; hard coal 1.8 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a single striped chimney and coal yard beside the cooling towers; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam and penstock structure in the lower-left foreground near a river. TIME: 03:00 — completely dark, black sky with no twilight or sky glow whatsoever, only faint stars peeking through 50% patchy cloud cover. All structures are lit solely by sodium-orange industrial lighting, red aviation warning lights blinking on turbine nacelles, and warm window glow from control buildings. The atmosphere is calm and serene — reflecting the near-zero electricity price — with cool early-spring air at 5.7°C, bare deciduous trees with the earliest hint of budding, and patches of frost on the ground catching the artificial light. The river in the foreground reflects the orange industrial glow. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, deep colour palette of navy, black, burnt umber, and sodium orange — with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth through layered mist between turbine rows, and meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower flute, gas-stack geometry, and conveyor mechanism. A masterwork of the industrial-romantic night landscape. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 March 2026, 03:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-13T04:10 UTC · Download image