Grid Poet — 11 March 2026, 11:00
Wind (33.9 GW) and solar (25.9 GW) dominate under full overcast, driving 85% renewables and 9.4 GW net exports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at 11:00 on this mid-March morning is overwhelmingly renewable at 85%, driven by a powerful combination of 33.9 GW wind (27.0 onshore + 6.9 offshore) and 25.9 GW solar — remarkably strong solar output despite full cloud cover, reflecting the large installed base and diffuse radiation. Total generation of 76.7 GW exceeds the 67.3 GW domestic consumption, yielding a net export of approximately 9.4 GW to neighboring countries. The day-ahead price of just 12.2 EUR/MWh is very low, reflecting this oversupply; despite the abundance, brown coal plants still contribute 6.1 GW of baseload inertia, while natural gas (3.0 GW) and hard coal (2.4 GW) run at minimum stable generation levels, unable to ramp down further without costly restarts.
Grid poem Claude AI
A hundred overcast skies cannot silence the turbines' hymn — they roar across the flatlands while invisible light still coaxes power from silicon fields. Coal's ancient towers exhale their last stubborn breaths into a world that barely needs them.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 34%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 8%
85%
Renewable share
33.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.9 GW
Solar
76.7 GW
Total generation
+9.3 GW
Net export
12.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.3°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 28.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
108
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 27.0 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling North German plains, rotors turning briskly in moderate wind; wind offshore 6.9 GW appears as a distant line of taller turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey North Sea sliver; solar 25.9 GW fills the centre-left foreground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels on metal racking, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting the flat white light of a completely overcast sky; brown coal 6.1 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge with the grey clouds, with conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles visible; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a pair of wood-chip-fed power stations with modest stacks and biomass storage domes in the centre-left midground; natural gas 3.0 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller heat-recovery steam generator visible behind the solar fields; hard coal 2.4 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a single large smokestack and coal bunkers at the far left edge; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam and penstock on a wooded hillside in the distant left background. The sky is a uniform blanket of dense grey stratus clouds at 100% coverage — no sun disc visible, but full diffuse daytime brightness at 11:00 AM in March. The atmosphere feels calm and gentle despite the overcast — low price conveyed through serene open spacing and soft light. Temperature is mild at 11°C: early spring landscape with patches of green grass emerging, bare-branched deciduous trees beginning to bud, some winter wheat fields showing bright green. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich visible brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering accuracy on all turbine nacelles, panel arrays, cooling tower geometries, and industrial structures. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 March 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-11T12:36 UTC · Download image