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Grid Poet — 13 May 2026, 06:00
Wind onshore leads at 16.7 GW but heavy cloud, cool temperatures, and 8 GW net imports drive prices to 137 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 06:00 on 13 May, Germany draws 53.4 GW against 45.4 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 8.0 GW of net imports. Wind onshore at 16.7 GW remains the single largest source despite moderate surface winds, while brown coal (7.7 GW), natural gas (6.1 GW), and hard coal (4.5 GW) together supply 18.3 GW of thermal baseload to cover the high residual load of 32.1 GW. Solar contributes only 2.0 GW under 88% cloud cover at early dawn, with virtually no direct irradiance. The day-ahead price of 137.2 EUR/MWh reflects the combination of substantial import dependency, heavy thermal dispatch, and limited solar availability during a cool, overcast spring morning.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky the turbines turn their patient arms, while coal fires smolder in the belly of a land still waiting for the sun. The grid groans softly, drinking from distant borders, its hunger outpacing the grey dawn's meager offering.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 37%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 4%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 13%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 17%
60%
Renewable share
19.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
2.0 GW
Solar
45.4 GW
Total generation
-8.0 GW
Net import
137.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.7°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
88% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
280
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 16.7 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green hills into the misty distance, rotors turning slowly; brown coal 7.7 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky; natural gas 6.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with tall single exhaust stacks and low rectangular turbine halls just left of centre, thin heat shimmer above the stacks; hard coal 4.5 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller conventional power station with a tall brick chimney and coal conveyors; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fired plant with a cylindrical silo and modest smokestack beside a pile of timber; wind offshore 2.6 GW is glimpsed as a distant row of turbines on the far-right horizon above a faint grey sea; solar 2.0 GW appears as a small field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels on a hillside in the mid-ground, their surfaces dull and unreflective under thick cloud; hydro 1.5 GW is a concrete run-of-river weir with white water spilling in the lower-right corner. Time is early dawn at 06:00 in May: the sky is deep blue-grey with the faintest pale luminescence on the eastern horizon, no direct sunlight, 88 percent cloud cover forming a heavy unbroken stratus layer; temperature is a cool 6.7 °C so spring vegetation is fresh green but subdued, dew visible on grass; the atmosphere feels oppressive and weighty, reflecting the high electricity price — muted tones, low contrast, a sense of industrial burden. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and sfumato in the distant haze, dramatic yet measured composition balancing nature and industry. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 May 2026, 06:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-13T05:53 UTC · Download image