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Grid Poet — 13 May 2026, 02:00
Wind leads at 23.7 GW with brown coal and gas providing firm nighttime baseload under full cloud cover.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 on 13 May 2026, wind generation dominates the mix at 23.7 GW combined (18.7 onshore, 5.0 offshore), complemented by 4.1 GW biomass and 1.4 GW hydro, yielding a 62.8% renewable share. Thermal baseload remains substantial with brown coal at 7.6 GW, hard coal at 4.2 GW, and natural gas at 5.5 GW, collectively providing 17.3 GW — a notable commitment of conventional capacity for a nighttime hour with strong wind. Total generation of 46.5 GW against 42.8 GW consumption implies a net export of approximately 3.7 GW. The day-ahead price of 104.4 EUR/MWh is elevated for a low-demand nighttime period, suggesting either tight conditions on interconnected markets, high fuel and carbon costs sustaining thermal dispatch, or limited flexibility in reducing coal output below technical minimums.
Grid poem Claude AI
Black towers exhale their ashen breath beneath an overcast void, while invisible blades carve restless hymns into the windswept dark. The grid hums its nocturnal burden — coal and wind locked in uneasy communion, trading power across borders no eye can see.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 40%
Wind offshore 11%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 16%
63%
Renewable share
23.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
46.5 GW
Total generation
+3.7 GW
Net export
104.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.3°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
260
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 18.7 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers stretching across rolling dark farmland, rotors turning steadily; wind offshore 5.0 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on a black horizon line over the North Sea glimpsed through a gap between hills; brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes billowing upward, lit from below by sodium-orange industrial floodlights, alongside a lignite conveyor belt and vast open-pit silhouette; natural gas 5.5 GW sits center-left as a compact CCGT plant with two slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, surrounded by piping and lit by harsh white facility lighting; hard coal 4.2 GW appears as a dark coal-fired station with a single large chimney and coal stockpile beside it, glowing faintly under amber lights; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a cylindrical silo and wood-chip storage area, warm interior light spilling from tall windows; hydro 1.4 GW is a small concrete dam structure in the middle distance with water gleaming under artificial light. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, 100% overcast with no stars, no moon, no twilight — pure 2 AM darkness. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting a high electricity price: low thick clouds press down on the scene, faintly catching the orange industrial glow from below. Temperature is cool spring at 7.3°C: fresh green grass and emerging deciduous foliage on trees rendered in dark muted tones. Ground-level mist drifts between turbine bases. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — rich deep colour palette of indigo, amber, charcoal, and steel grey, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 May 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-13T01:53 UTC · Download image