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The German energy grid, interpreted through AI. Updated hourly.

Grid Poet — 8 May 2026, 00:00
36% renewable
Brown coal and gas dominate midnight generation as light winds and high imports drive prices above 130 EUR/MWh.
Grid analysis Claude AI
At midnight on May 8, Germany's grid draws 46.6 GW against 31.5 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 15.1 GW of net imports. Brown coal leads the generation stack at 8.6 GW, followed by natural gas at 7.8 GW, with wind contributing a modest 5.5 GW combined onshore and offshore in light wind conditions. The renewable share stands at 36.1%, carried primarily by wind and biomass (4.3 GW), while solar is naturally absent at this hour. The day-ahead price of 130.3 EUR/MWh reflects the heavy reliance on thermal generation and significant import volumes needed to balance overnight demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
Coal towers breathe their slow grey hymns into a starless spring night, while across the darkened plains, turbines turn like restless sentinels guarding a grid that hungers for more than the wind can give.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 3%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 5%
Natural gas 25%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 27%
36%
Renewable share
5.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
31.7 GW
Total generation
-13.4 GW
Net import
120.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.1°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
Grid data: 8 May 2026, 01:00 (Berlin time)
Carbon intensity
432 gCO₂/kWh
EU 2023
242
DE 2023
~380
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Now: 432 gCO₂/kWh EU 2023: 242 gCO₂/kWh DE 2023: ~380 gCO₂/kWh Today avg: 434 gCO₂/kWh
Direct operational emissions (combustion only). Wind · solar · hydro · biomass: 0 gCO₂/kWh. Lignite: 820 · Hard coal: 750 · Gas (CCGT): 490. Sources: UBA, IPCC AR6.
7-day renewable share
Day-ahead price — 2026-05-08 + forecast 2026-05-08 click line name to show/hide

Residual load = consumption − wind − solar. It is the net demand that dispatchable plants — coal, gas, biomass, hydro, storage — plus cross-border exchanges must balance. When it is high, expensive thermal capacity is needed and prices rise with it. As residual load falls, wind and solar displace more thermal generation, pulling prices down. When it turns negative, wind and solar output alone exceeds all consumption: controllable plants ramp to their technical minimums, storage absorbs what it can, and the grid exports heavily — often with prices turning negative too.
Forecast (dashed): tomorrow's predicted DA price (P50 median) with P10–P90 uncertainty band. Full forecast →

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