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Grid Poet — 13 May 2026, 17:00
Solar and onshore wind lead at 68.6% renewable share as brown coal and gas backstop the approaching evening ramp.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 17:00 on a May evening, the German grid is nearly balanced with 53.1 GW of generation against 52.9 GW of consumption, yielding a marginal net export of approximately 0.2 GW. Renewables contribute 68.6% of generation, led by solar at 16.1 GW — still delivering meaningfully despite 84% cloud cover and approaching dusk — and onshore wind at 14.5 GW, though surface wind speeds are modest at 6.6 km/h, suggesting stronger winds at hub height or favorable conditions in northern coastal and upland corridors. The residual load of 22.1 GW is met by a substantial conventional stack: brown coal at 7.6 GW, natural gas at 5.1 GW, hard coal at 4.0 GW, and biomass at 4.2 GW, reflecting anticipation of the imminent solar ramp-down and the evening demand plateau. The day-ahead price of 112.6 EUR/MWh is elevated but consistent with a spring evening hour where thermal units are ramping up to backstop declining solar output, and coal and gas marginal costs set the clearing price.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun descends through veils of pewter cloud, its last golden watts draining from ten million silicon faces into the hungering grid. Beneath towers of lignite steam and the slow-turning arms of inland turbines, coal and wind share the burden of a nation turning on its evening lights.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 30%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 14%
69%
Renewable share
14.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
16.1 GW
Solar
53.1 GW
Total generation
+0.2 GW
Net export
112.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.6°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
84% / 237.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
221
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 16.1 GW fills the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their surfaces reflecting the last amber light breaking through thick overcast. Onshore wind 14.5 GW dominates the centre-right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers rising from green spring meadows, rotors turning slowly in light breeze. Brown coal 7.6 GW anchors the left side as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers issuing thick white steam plumes that merge with the heavy grey cloud ceiling. Natural gas 5.1 GW appears centre-left as compact CCGT plants with polished exhaust stacks and visible heat shimmer. Hard coal 4.0 GW sits behind the gas plant as a darker industrial complex with conveyor belts and a single large smokestack. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip facility with a ribbed metal silo and thin exhaust wisps near the wind turbines. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam and spillway in the far background valley. Offshore wind 0.2 GW is barely visible as two tiny turbines on the distant grey horizon line. The sky is 84% overcast at dusk — 17:00 in May — with a narrow band of deep orange-red glow along the lower western horizon fading rapidly into heavy slate-grey and violet cloud layers above, creating an oppressive, weighty atmosphere reflecting the high electricity price. The landscape is lush mid-spring green at 13.6°C, with wildflowers and fresh leaves on scattered birch trees. Light wind barely stirs the grass. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, dramatic chiaroscuro between the fading horizon glow and the dark industrial plumes — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 May 2026, 17:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-13T16:53 UTC · Download image