Grid Poet — 13 March 2026, 22:00
Wind leads at 17.6 GW but heavy coal and gas dispatch plus 6.7 GW net imports meet strong nighttime demand.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 22:00 on a fully overcast March night, Germany's grid draws 51.1 GW against only 44.4 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 6.7 GW of net imports. Wind provides a strong 17.6 GW combined (onshore 14.2 GW, offshore 3.4 GW), but with zero solar output, thermal plants carry heavy duty: brown coal at 8.7 GW, natural gas at 7.2 GW, and hard coal at 5.5 GW form a substantial fossil backbone. The day-ahead price of 123.4 EUR/MWh is markedly elevated, reflecting the tight supply-demand balance, high thermal dispatch costs, and reliance on expensive imports despite a respectable 51.8% renewable share driven entirely by wind and biomass.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless, coal-black canopy the turbines churn their restless hymn, while furnaces of lignite and gas breathe fire into the hungry grid. Yet even the wind's fierce offering cannot sate the nation's nocturnal appetite, and foreign currents flow across dark borders to fill the void.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 8%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 20%
52%
Renewable share
17.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
44.4 GW
Total generation
-6.8 GW
Net import
123.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.4°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
333
gCO₂/kWh
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Brown coal 8.7 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with billowing white steam plumes lit from below by amber sodium lamps; natural gas 7.2 GW occupies the centre-left as several compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer against the black sky; hard coal 5.5 GW appears centre-right as a large conventional power station with twin square stacks and conveyor belts of dark coal illuminated by floodlights; wind onshore 14.2 GW spans the entire right third and recedes into the deep background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking in rhythmic patterns across dark ridgelines; wind offshore 3.4 GW is suggested far in the background-right as a faint line of turbine lights hovering above a barely visible dark sea horizon; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip silo and a single exhaust stack near the centre; hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete dam with a spillway faintly visible in the lower foreground, water reflecting orange industrial glow. The sky is completely black, 100% overcast with no stars, no moon, no twilight — a heavy oppressive ceiling of invisible cloud pressing down, conveying the high electricity price. The season is early spring: bare deciduous trees with just the faintest swelling buds, dormant brown grass, patches of old snow in shadows, temperature around 7°C suggested by a damp mist hugging the ground. Wind at moderate speed animates the turbine blades and bends thin branches. All illumination comes from sodium streetlights casting orange pools, industrial floodlights, glowing furnace mouths, and the red blinking nacelle lights of turbines. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of deep navy, burnt umber, warm amber, and cold grey; visible confident brushwork; atmospheric depth with industrial haze softening distant elements; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower ribbing, and CCGT stack detail. The mood is brooding, industrially sublime, a nocturnal Rhenish landscape transformed by energy infrastructure. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 March 2026, 22:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-13T23:10 UTC · Download image