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Grid Poet — 18 May 2026, 23:00
Brown coal and gas dominate a calm, dark night as 15.3 GW of net imports fill the generation gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 23:00 on a cool May night, German domestic generation reaches only 30.5 GW against 45.8 GW consumption, resulting in approximately 15.3 GW of net imports. Lignite provides the largest single domestic source at 8.6 GW, followed by natural gas at 6.8 GW, with wind contributing a modest combined 5.6 GW onshore and offshore under near-calm conditions (0.9 km/h surface wind). The day-ahead price of 148.9 EUR/MWh reflects the tight supply-demand balance and heavy reliance on thermal generation and imports to meet late-evening load. Renewables account for 37.4% of domestic output, sustained mainly by biomass (4.2 GW) and hydro (1.6 GW) rather than wind or solar.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a moonless vault the furnaces breathe deep, their coal-fired hearts feeding a hungry land that neither wind nor sun can keep. Across dark borders, borrowed power flows like a silent river of electrons, paying the toll of a still and starless night.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 2%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 22%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 28%
37%
Renewable share
5.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
30.5 GW
Total generation
-15.2 GW
Net import
148.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.1°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
2% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
431
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 8.6 GW dominates the left third of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the black night sky, lit from below by orange sodium lamps revealing their concrete ribbing; natural gas 6.8 GW occupies the centre-left as two compact CCGT plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and softly glowing turbine halls behind chain-link fences; wind onshore 5.1 GW fills the centre-right as a row of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors barely turning in the still air, red aviation warning lights blinking at each nacelle; biomass 4.2 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a timber-chip conveyor and a single squat smokestack emitting thin pale exhaust, warmly lit by floodlights; hard coal 3.6 GW sits to the right as a compact power station with a single large cooling tower and coal bunker, spotlit against the darkness; hydro 1.6 GW is represented in the far right background by a concrete dam with spillway illuminated by small white lights reflected in dark water; wind offshore 0.5 GW is barely visible as distant red dots on the far horizon suggesting turbines at sea. The sky is completely black with no twilight or sky glow, a deep navy dome scattered with faint stars; the air is clear with only 2% cloud cover, and the landscape is a flat German lowland with fresh spring grass barely visible in the artificial light; the atmosphere is heavy and oppressive, reflecting a high electricity price — the sodium-orange industrial glow casts a brooding warmth across the entire scene. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, deep colour palette dominated by blacks, deep blues, and warm industrial oranges; visible impasto brushwork on the steam plumes and sky; atmospheric depth with subtle aerial perspective; meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 18 May 2026, 23:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-18T22:53 UTC · Download image