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Grid Poet — 14 May 2026, 02:00
Wind onshore leads at 14.4 GW but substantial coal, gas, and net imports balance overnight demand at 40 GW.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 02:00 on a mild May night, German consumption sits at 40.0 GW with domestic generation covering 36.8 GW, implying a net import of approximately 3.2 GW. Wind onshore provides the largest single block at 14.4 GW, but with offshore contributing only 1.1 GW and solar absent, the renewable share reaches 56.7%—moderate for this season. Thermal baseload is substantial: brown coal at 6.0 GW, natural gas at 5.9 GW, and hard coal at 4.0 GW collectively supply 15.9 GW, reflecting the residual load of 24.5 GW that conventional and dispatchable units must fill. The day-ahead price of 119.2 EUR/MWh is elevated for a nighttime hour, consistent with the high thermal dispatch requirement and reliance on imports to balance the system.
Grid poem Claude AI
Coal furnaces breathe their ancient heat beneath a starless vault, while turbine blades turn slow and pale where spring's cold wind finds fault.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 39%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 16%
57%
Renewable share
15.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.8 GW
Total generation
-3.2 GW
Net import
119.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.6°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
294
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 14.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with lattice towers stretching across rolling dark hills, their red aviation lights blinking; brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the far left as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thick pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting; natural gas 5.9 GW sits left of centre as a cluster of compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks venting thin white vapour, illuminated by bright facility floodlights; hard coal 4.0 GW appears between the gas plant and cooling towers as a gritty power station with a large chimney and coal conveyors under yellow work lights; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial plant with a rounded silo and modest stack emitting faint grey smoke, warmly lit; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam structure with spillway visible in the lower foreground, lit by a single floodlight reflecting on dark water; wind offshore 1.1 GW is suggested by a distant line of turbines on a dark horizon where land meets a sliver of black sea. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black with full 100% cloud cover—no stars, no moon, no twilight glow whatsoever. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is cool at 7.6°C: bare-branched trees are just beginning to show tiny spring leaf buds, and a thin ground mist clings to the valley floor. Wind is light at 6.5 km/h—turbine blades turn slowly. All illumination comes solely from artificial sources: sodium streetlights along a road in the foreground, orange and white industrial facility lights, and the red beacon lights atop turbines and stacks. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich dark palette of deep indigo, burnt umber, and warm amber, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with industrial haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 14 May 2026, 02:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-14T01:53 UTC · Download image