Grid Poet — 13 March 2026, 18:00
Wind leads at 23 GW but 12.9 GW net imports and heavy fossil dispatch drive prices to 161.5 EUR/MWh at sundown.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on a March evening, the sun has set and solar contributes nothing, leaving wind (23.0 GW combined onshore and offshore) as the dominant renewable source alongside 4.5 GW biomass and 1.3 GW hydro, yielding a 58.5% renewable share. Fossil thermal plants are running hard: brown coal at 8.1 GW, natural gas at 7.6 GW, and hard coal at 4.8 GW, responding to the evening demand peak. Domestic generation totals only 49.4 GW against 62.3 GW consumption, requiring approximately 12.9 GW of net imports — a substantial cross-border flow that, combined with fossil dispatch, drives the day-ahead price to a steep 161.5 EUR/MWh. The high residual load of 39.2 GW underscores how dependent Germany remains on dispatchable and imported power during dark, windswept winter evenings.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines howl beneath a starless vault, their blades carving prayers the coal fires cannot answer. Across the borders, borrowed current surges through copper veins to feed a nation's hungry dusk.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 37%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 0%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 16%
58%
Renewable share
23.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
49.4 GW
Total generation
-12.9 GW
Net import
161.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.1°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
283
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 18.5 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling hills into the distance, rotors spinning in moderate wind; wind offshore 4.5 GW appears as a distant cluster of tall turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey sea sliver; brown coal 8.1 GW occupies the left foreground as massive hyperbolic cooling towers belching thick white-grey steam plumes, flanked by open-pit mine terraces; natural gas 7.6 GW fills the left-centre as a cluster of compact CCGT plants with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin heat shimmer; hard coal 4.8 GW sits behind the gas units as a gritty power station with conveyor belts and a tall brick chimney trailing dark smoke; biomass 4.5 GW appears centre-right as a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a squat cylindrical silo and gentle vapour; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam with spillway in the centre midground beside a river. No solar panels anywhere. The sky is a dusk scene at 18:00 in March: a narrow band of deep orange-red glow clings to the lower horizon on the left, rapidly giving way to a dark, heavy, fully overcast sky pressing down — no stars, no blue, thick oppressive cloud layer conveying the extreme electricity price. The landscape is early-spring central German terrain: bare deciduous trees just beginning to bud, pale-green grass, muddy fields, temperature around 11°C suggesting damp mild air with mist curling near the ground. Transmission pylons and high-voltage lines cross the middle distance, symbolising the massive import flows. Scattered sodium-orange streetlights glow in a small village nestled between the turbines and the coal plant. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro, atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 March 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-13T19:10 UTC · Download image