Grid Poet — 13 March 2026, 05:00
Massive onshore wind (37 GW) dominates a sleeping Germany, driving net exports and near-zero electricity prices at dawn.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 05:00 on a breezy March morning, Germany's grid is overwhelmingly wind-powered: onshore wind delivers 37.1 GW and offshore wind adds 6.2 GW, together comprising 76% of the 56.6 GW total generation. With consumption at only 53.4 GW, Germany is net exporting approximately 3.2 GW to neighbouring countries. The day-ahead price has collapsed to just 2.9 EUR/MWh—near-zero territory—reflecting the massive wind surplus against low pre-dawn demand. Thermal baseload plants (brown coal 2.8 GW, hard coal 1.9 GW, gas 3.5 GW) remain online at minimum stable generation levels, unable or unwilling to ramp down further, while biomass (4.0 GW) and hydro (1.2 GW) provide steady renewable baseload.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades carve the pre-dawn dark, their tireless hymn flooding copper wires with more power than the sleeping nation can drink. The turbines sing to foreign grids, exporting a gale's bounty at the price of almost nothing.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 65%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 5%
85%
Renewable share
43.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
56.6 GW
Total generation
+3.2 GW
Net export
2.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.2°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
9% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
97
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 37.1 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and aerodynamic nacelles stretching across rolling central-German hills, occupying roughly two-thirds of the composition from centre to right, their rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 6.2 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of larger turbines rising from a distant grey North Sea horizon; natural gas 3.5 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant in the left-centre with twin exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; brown coal 2.8 GW sits at the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers releasing gentle white steam plumes into the still air; hard coal 1.9 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single square stack and conveyor belt beside the brown coal facility; biomass 4.0 GW is depicted as a medium-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a rounded silo and moderate chimney smoke in the left-centre ground; hydro 1.2 GW is shown as a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse beside a glinting stream in the lower foreground. Solar 0.0 GW — no panels visible anywhere. TIME: 05:00 pre-dawn in March — the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale steel-blue band along the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, stars still faintly visible overhead; the landscape is mostly dark, lit by sodium-orange streetlights in a small village nestled among the turbine bases, warm glowing windows in farmhouses, and industrial facility lights on the thermal plants casting amber reflections. Temperature 6 °C: early-spring landscape, bare deciduous trees with just the first hint of budding, patches of frost on ploughed fields, dormant brown-green grass. Cloud cover 9%: nearly clear sky revealing deep navy overhead fading to slate-blue near the horizon. Low price atmosphere: vast open calm sky, a sense of abundance and tranquillity despite the industrial elements. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — think Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with meticulous industrial-age engineering detail — rich deep blues, warm amber artificial lights, visible confident brushwork, dramatic scale contrast between tiny human structures and the endless turbine-studded horizon. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 March 2026, 05:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-13T06:10 UTC · Download image