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Grid Poet — 25 March 2026, 02:00
Onshore wind at 38.9 GW drives overnight oversupply, clearing the day-ahead price to zero.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 CET, strong onshore wind generation of 38.9 GW dominates the system, supplemented by 5.4 GW offshore wind, yielding a combined wind output of 44.3 GW — well above the 42.3 GW national consumption. With solar absent at this hour and biomass contributing a steady 4.0 GW, the renewable share reaches 85.9%. The residual load stands at −2.1 GW, indicating a net export position of approximately 15.3 GW once thermal generation (8.2 GW from gas, hard coal, and brown coal combined) is included, consistent with the day-ahead price clearing at 0.0 EUR/MWh. The persistence of 5.6 GW of coal-fired generation despite zero pricing reflects must-run constraints and minimum stable generation levels on lignite and hard coal units.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades carve the March night's restless breath, flooding the grid with invisible force until the price of power dissolves to nothing. The old coal furnaces grumble on in darkness, unable to bow before the wind's dominion.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 68%
Wind offshore 9%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 6%
86%
Renewable share
44.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
57.6 GW
Total generation
+15.3 GW
Net export
0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.8°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
75% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
98
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 38.9 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling central German hills into the deep-navy darkness, red aviation warning lights blinking on every nacelle; wind offshore 5.4 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines on the far-right horizon, their lights reflected faintly on implied water; brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting ghostly white steam plumes lit from below by orange sodium lamps; natural gas 2.6 GW sits just right of the cooling towers as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a faint heat shimmer; hard coal 2.3 GW appears beside it as a blocky power station with a single large chimney and conveyor belts dimly illuminated; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a domed digester and a modest stack, warm interior light spilling through high windows; hydro 1.1 GW is a small concrete dam structure in the lower-left corner with water glistening under a single floodlight. The sky is completely dark — no twilight, no glow on the horizon — a deep black-navy sky at 2 AM, overcast at 75% so only faint patches of stars peek through ragged cloud gaps. The March landscape has bare deciduous trees and fresh early grass, temperature near 10°C suggesting mist curling at ground level around turbine bases. Wind at 13 km/h animates the scene: turbine blades caught mid-rotation, steam plumes bending gently eastward, thin fog drifting. The mood is calm and vast, reflecting the zero electricity price — open, unhurried, no oppressive atmosphere. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, deep colour palette of Prussian blue, ivory black, warm sodium-orange, and cool steel grey — visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with sfumato haze between foreground industrial structures and the endless receding wind farm, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower fluting, and gas-plant pipework. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 25 March 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-25T10:08 UTC · Download image