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Grid Poet — 13 May 2026, 18:00
Wind leads at 12.7 GW but heavy coal and gas dispatch drive prices to 132 EUR/MWh under full overcast.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 18:00 on a fully overcast May evening, Germany's grid draws 53.9 GW against 46.2 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 7.7 GW of net imports. Onshore wind at 12.7 GW is the single largest source, while solar contributes a still-meaningful 9.7 GW despite complete cloud cover, consistent with diffuse irradiance at this late-afternoon hour in mid-May. Thermal baseload remains substantial: brown coal at 7.7 GW, natural gas at 5.7 GW, and hard coal at 4.1 GW collectively supply 17.5 GW, reflecting the high residual load of 31.2 GW. The day-ahead price of 132.4 EUR/MWh is elevated but consistent with tight supply conditions where significant fossil and import capacity must be dispatched to meet evening demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky the turbines sway like restless sentinels, while coal fires burn deep in the earth's throat to feed the evening's insatiable hunger. The grid stretches taut as a wire between what the wind gives freely and what must be wrested from ancient stone.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 28%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 21%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 17%
62%
Renewable share
13.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
9.7 GW
Solar
46.2 GW
Total generation
-7.7 GW
Net import
132.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.4°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 74.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
264
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 12.7 GW dominates the right third of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green hills, rotors turning in moderate wind; solar 9.7 GW occupies the centre-right foreground as vast arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on spring-green farmland, their surfaces reflecting only grey sky; brown coal 7.7 GW fills the left quarter as massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into heavy clouds, with open-pit mine terraces visible behind; natural gas 5.7 GW appears centre-left as a cluster of compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks and smaller plumes; hard coal 4.1 GW sits between the brown coal and gas plants as a gritty conventional power station with rectangular boiler houses and a single large chimney; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad CHP facility with a short stack near the wind turbines; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway in the far background valley; wind offshore 0.3 GW is barely visible as a few tiny turbines on the distant horizon line. The sky is entirely overcast with low, thick, oppressive grey-charcoal clouds pressing down on the landscape, creating a heavy brooding atmosphere reflecting the high electricity price. The lighting is late dusk at 18:00 in May — a fading orange-red glow clings to the lower western horizon while the upper sky darkens to slate blue-grey, casting long warm-toned shadows across the industrial terrain. Spring vegetation is lush — fresh green grass and budding deciduous trees at roughly 11°C — but muted under the dense cloud layer. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich colour palette, visible expressive brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine blade, panel frame, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack, conveying the sublime tension between nature and industrial power. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 May 2026, 18:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-13T17:53 UTC · Download image