Grid Poet — 11 March 2026, 10:00
Wind (31.8 GW) and solar (23.8 GW) dominate under full overcast, enabling 6 GW net export at low prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at 10:00 on this March morning is dominated by wind power, with onshore (24.8 GW) and offshore (7.0 GW) combining for 31.8 GW — nearly 44% of total generation. Despite fully overcast skies and only 19 W/m² direct radiation, solar still contributes an impressive 23.8 GW, likely from diffuse irradiance across Germany's vast installed PV fleet. Total generation of 72.3 GW exceeds domestic consumption of 66.3 GW, yielding a net export of approximately 6.0 GW to neighboring countries. The day-ahead price of 26.2 EUR/MWh is moderate-to-low, reflecting the 84.2% renewable share and comfortable supply, though brown coal (6.2 GW) and hard coal (2.3 GW) remain stubbornly online as baseload — a lingering reminder of must-run obligations and inflexible thermal commitments.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a sky of iron wool, a thousand blades carve power from the restless air, while silent panels drink the grey light's hidden gift. The old furnaces still smolder in the lowlands, their amber breath a fading hymn to the age of fire.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 33%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
84%
Renewable share
31.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
23.8 GW
Solar
72.3 GW
Total generation
+6.0 GW
Net export
26.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.2°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 19.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
114
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 24.8 GW dominates the right half and deep background as vast rolling fields crowded with hundreds of three-blade wind turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning visibly in moderate wind; wind offshore 7.0 GW appears as a distant cluster of tall offshore turbines rising from a grey North Sea horizon at upper right; solar 23.8 GW fills the centre-left foreground as enormous arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural fields, their glass surfaces reflecting the pale diffuse light of a completely overcast sky; brown coal 6.2 GW occupies the left background as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the grey air, alongside conveyor belts and open-pit mine terraces; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial biogas facility with cylindrical digesters and a modest smokestack; natural gas 2.9 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and sleek turbine hall near centre-left; hard coal 2.3 GW sits as a smaller coal plant with a rectangular boiler house and single cooling tower beside a coal stockpile at far left; hydro 1.2 GW is a modest run-of-river weir with a small powerhouse visible along a river cutting through the centre foreground. Time is 10:00 AM in March — full daylight but entirely diffuse, no shadows, no sun disc visible, the sky a uniform blanket of pale grey stratocumulus from horizon to zenith, temperature mild at 10°C with early spring green beginning to emerge on bare deciduous trees and grass. The atmosphere is calm and unhurried, reflecting a low electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — rich muted earth tones, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with hazy distances, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower shell, and smokestack. No text, no labels, no human figures dominant.
Grid data: 11 March 2026, 10:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-11T11:37 UTC · Download image