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Grid Poet — 3 May 2026, 03:00
Onshore wind leads at 8.8 GW, but 11 GW net imports are needed as thermal plants and biomass fill a nighttime supply gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 03:00 on 3 May, Germany's overnight demand of 35.3 GW is met by 24.3 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 11.0 GW of net imports. Onshore wind provides 8.8 GW but offshore wind is negligible at 0.1 GW, and solar is absent at this hour, yielding a renewable share of 58.5% when biomass and hydro are included. Brown coal at 4.7 GW and natural gas at 4.2 GW form the backbone of dispatchable thermal output, supplemented by 1.2 GW of hard coal and 4.0 GW of biomass. The day-ahead price of 108.5 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, consistent with the substantial import requirement and moderate thermal dispatch needed to cover the gap between domestic supply and demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a starless German sky the coal furnaces breathe their amber hymn, while distant turbine blades carve silence from the wind. The grid reaches across borders in the dark, hungry and restless, buying power from the night.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 16%
Hydro 6%
Natural gas 17%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 19%
58%
Renewable share
8.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
24.3 GW
Total generation
-11.0 GW
Net import
108.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.6°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
66% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
280
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Onshore wind 8.8 GW dominates the right half of the scene as a long ridge of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers, their rotors turning slowly in light breeze; brown coal 4.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting; natural gas 4.2 GW appears centre-left as compact CCGT plant blocks with slender single exhaust stacks venting thin white vapour; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a tall rectangular boiler building and a conveyor belt feeding wood chips, lit by warm floodlights; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a concrete dam structure in the centre-right middle distance with water glinting under artificial light; hard coal 1.2 GW sits behind the brown coal plant as a smaller stack with a visible coal bunker; offshore wind 0.1 GW is a single faint turbine silhouette on the far horizon. Time is 03:00 — completely dark, deep navy-to-black sky, no twilight, no sky glow, 66% cloud cover shown as invisible clouds blotting out most stars but a few clusters visible through gaps. A mild spring night at 12.6°C — fresh green foliage on deciduous trees is barely visible in the facility floodlights, damp grass gleams faintly. The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price: a low industrial haze hangs across the scene, the cooling tower steam merges into the overcast, sodium streetlights cast amber cones along a road in the foreground. A high-voltage transmission line stretches from left to right, symbolising the import flows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of deep blues, burnt umber, and amber-orange, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with layers of industrial haze, meticulous engineering detail on turbine nacelles, cooling tower reinforced-concrete ribs, CCGT exhaust geometry. The mood is brooding, industrial, nocturnal. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 3 May 2026, 03:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-03T02:53 UTC · Download image