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Grid Poet — 12 May 2026, 20:00
Wind leads at 17.8 GW but 12.9 GW net imports needed as evening demand peaks under overcast skies.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 20:00 on a fully overcast May evening, Germany draws 55.6 GW against 42.7 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 12.9 GW of net imports. Wind provides a solid 17.8 GW combined (onshore 13.4 GW, offshore 4.4 GW), though local surface winds in central Germany are light at 4.3 km/h, indicating stronger conditions at turbine hub heights and along the coasts. Solar is effectively absent at 0.5 GW, consistent with post-sunset conditions under full cloud cover. Thermal baseload runs firm — brown coal at 7.6 GW, hard coal at 4.6 GW, and gas at 5.9 GW — pushing the day-ahead price to 143 EUR/MWh, a level reflecting tight supply-demand balance and significant import dependency during the evening demand peak.
Grid poem Claude AI
Coal towers exhale their gray hymns into a starless canopy, while unseen blades carve the darkened wind like iron prayers. The grid groans beneath a continent's hunger, and imported electrons stream across borders like rivers seeking the sea.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 1%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 18%
58%
Renewable share
17.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.5 GW
Solar
42.7 GW
Total generation
-13.0 GW
Net import
143.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.3°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 2.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
295
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 13.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, rotors turning slowly; wind offshore 4.4 GW appears in the far-right background as a cluster of turbines visible on a black sea horizon with tiny red aviation lights; brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left foreground as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; natural gas 5.9 GW sits left-of-centre as two sleek CCGT power blocks with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer, surrounded by glowing control buildings; hard coal 4.6 GW appears centre-left as a dark industrial complex with conveyor belts, a large smokestack, and coal bunkers illuminated by floodlights; biomass 4.5 GW is rendered centre-right as a cluster of smaller industrial facilities with wood-chip silos and short chimneys emitting faint wisps; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a modest dam structure in the middle distance with illuminated spillway. The sky is completely dark — a deep navy-black overcast ceiling with no stars, no twilight, no sky glow — it is 20:00 in May, fully night. The entire scene is lit only by artificial light: amber sodium streetlamps, white industrial floodlights, red blinking aviation lights on turbine nacelles. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — low clouds press down, trapping steam and industrial haze. Spring vegetation is present but barely visible: fresh green grass and leafing trees caught only in pools of artificial light. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, dark palette of deep blues, blacks, warm oranges and amber from artificial lighting, visible thick brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro. Meticulous engineering detail on every technology: correct nacelle shapes, three-blade rotors, aluminium cooling tower ribbing, CCGT exhaust geometry. The painting evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sublime darkness merged with industrial grandeur. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 12 May 2026, 20:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-12T19:54 UTC · Download image