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Grid Poet — 15 May 2026, 22:00
Wind and lignite anchor a 36 GW night mix; 9.6 GW net imports fill the gap to 45.6 GW demand at high prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 22:00 on a fully overcast May night, Germany draws 45.6 GW against domestic generation of 36.0 GW, requiring approximately 9.6 GW of net imports. Wind contributes 13.0 GW combined (onshore 7.6, offshore 5.4), while thermal baseload is substantial: brown coal at 7.4 GW, natural gas at 5.8 GW, and hard coal at 4.0 GW, reflecting the need to compensate for zero solar output and moderate wind. The day-ahead price of 144.7 EUR/MWh is elevated, consistent with the high residual load of 32.7 GW and the reliance on costly marginal thermal units and imports to meet evening demand. Biomass at 4.3 GW and hydro at 1.4 GW provide steady renewable baseload, bringing the overall renewable share to 52%, a respectable figure for a nighttime hour despite the heavy fossil dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
Coal towers exhale pale ghosts into a starless vault, while unseen turbines spin their dark communion with the wind. The grid groans under its own hunger, buying power from distant borders to keep the nation's lamps alight.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 15%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 16%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 21%
52%
Renewable share
13.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
36.0 GW
Total generation
-9.7 GW
Net import
144.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.6°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
333
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.4 GW dominates the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into blackness; hard coal 4.0 GW sits just right of them as a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular stack and red aviation warning lights; natural gas 5.8 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT blocks with slim cylindrical exhaust stacks glowing faintly orange from internal combustion light; biomass 4.3 GW appears centre-right as a wood-clad industrial facility with a modest chimney and warm-lit loading bay; wind onshore 7.6 GW stretches across the right third as a long row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their nacelles barely visible against the dark sky, red tip-lights blinking; wind offshore 5.4 GW is suggested at the far right horizon as distant clusters of turbine lights reflected on a sliver of dark sea; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small illuminated dam structure in the lower-right foreground with white water cascading. Scene is set at 22:00 in complete darkness — a black-navy sky with no twilight, no stars visible due to 100% cloud cover forming a low oppressive overcast ceiling lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lighting. The atmosphere is heavy and hazy, conveying the elevated electricity price. Temperature is cool spring, 9.6°C — fresh green grass and budding deciduous trees in the foreground are barely visible under amber streetlights. Light wind at 5.6 km/h gently stirs the turbine blades and the steam plumes drift slowly. A network of high-voltage transmission pylons with glowing insulators connects the facilities across the midground. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between black sky and warm industrial glow, atmospheric depth with receding layers of haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 15 May 2026, 22:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-15T21:53 UTC · Download image