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Grid Poet — 11 May 2026, 06:00
Brown coal, onshore wind, and gas anchor a tight 34.8 GW supply against 51.8 GW demand under full overcast at dawn.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 06:00 on a fully overcast May morning, Germany's grid draws 51.8 GW against only 34.8 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 17.0 GW of net imports. Onshore wind contributes 10.4 GW but offshore output is negligible at 0.5 GW, while solar delivers just 1.6 GW under dense cloud cover at dawn. Thermal baseload is heavily engaged: brown coal at 7.9 GW, natural gas at 5.2 GW, hard coal at 3.6 GW, and biomass at 4.3 GW collectively provide 21.0 GW. The day-ahead price of 136.5 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance and heavy reliance on fossil dispatch to meet early-morning demand ramp.
Grid poem Claude AI
Under a leaden sky the coal fires breathe their ancient warmth into a waking land, towers exhaling pale ghosts into the grey. The turbines turn in muted devotion, but the grid still hungers beyond what wind and flame can give.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 5%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 23%
52%
Renewable share
10.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
1.6 GW
Solar
34.8 GW
Total generation
-17.0 GW
Net import
136.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.5°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
336
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.9 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into heavy cloud; natural gas 5.2 GW sits left of centre as compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin vapour; hard coal 3.6 GW appears as a dark industrial block with conveyor gantries and a single squat smokestack beside the gas units; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered centre-right as a series of timber-clad CHP facilities with modest chimneys and stacked woodchip piles; onshore wind 10.4 GW fills the right third of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers spread across rolling green spring hills, blades slowly turning in moderate wind; offshore wind 0.5 GW is barely visible as two distant turbines on a grey horizon line of sea at far right; solar 1.6 GW appears as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels in the mid-ground catching no direct light; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a modest dam and spillway nestled in a forested valley in the far background. Time of day is early dawn at 06:00 in May: the sky is a deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence at the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, no warm colours in the sky — overcast layer is total, 100% cloud cover forming a thick oppressive ceiling reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature 9.5 °C: fresh spring vegetation, bright green grass and leafing deciduous trees glistening with morning dew. Moderate wind bends the grass and stirs the steam plumes. Sodium streetlights still glow amber along an access road weaving between the plants. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic chiaroscuro between the warm artificial lights of industry and the cold grey dawn sky. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometry, PV panel aluminium frames. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 May 2026, 06:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-11T05:53 UTC · Download image