Grid Poet — 11 March 2026, 13:00
Strong onshore wind (30.1 GW) and diffuse solar (21.5 GW) under full overcast drive 84.5% renewables and 8.6 GW net export.
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Germany's grid is experiencing a strong renewable surplus at midday on this overcast March day, with wind providing 35.7 GW (onshore 30.1 + offshore 5.6) and solar contributing 21.5 GW despite complete cloud cover — likely diffuse irradiance across a massive installed base. Total generation of 73.9 GW exceeds consumption of 65.3 GW, yielding a net export of 8.6 GW to neighboring countries. The day-ahead price of just 16.1 EUR/MWh reflects this oversupply and incentivizes flexible consumers to absorb cheap power while conventional generators — brown coal at 6.0 GW, natural gas at 2.8 GW, and hard coal at 2.6 GW — remain online likely for grid stability, contractual minimums, and ramping constraints. The 84.5% renewable share is remarkable for a fully overcast winter-to-spring transition day, underscoring the dominance of wind in Germany's energy mix.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a pewter sky the turbines roar their hymn of surplus, flinging power across borders like silver coins into the wind. The old coal towers breathe their last stubborn plumes, anchored to earth while the invisible gale writes a green future overhead.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 41%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 29%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 8%
84%
Renewable share
35.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.5 GW
Solar
73.9 GW
Total generation
+8.6 GW
Net export
16.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.5°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 17.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
112
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 30.1 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green-brown early-spring hills from the centre to the far right, their blades visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on a grey North Sea horizon at far right; solar 21.5 GW occupies the centre-left foreground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled on metal racks, their surfaces reflecting only the flat white-grey light of total overcast — no direct sunlight, no shadows; brown coal 6.0 GW sits at the left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the leaden sky, with a lignite conveyor belt and open-pit mine edge visible; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a cluster of medium industrial buildings with short cylindrical stacks and woodchip storage domes in the left-centre middle ground; natural gas 2.8 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller heat recovery unit near the coal complex; hard coal 2.6 GW shows as a smaller traditional power station with a single square chimney and coal stockyard behind the gas plant; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with a visible turbine house along a swollen stream in the lower-left corner. The sky is entirely overcast in uniform layered stratus at 100% cloud cover, rendered in tones of silver, pewter, and pale dove-grey, with full diffuse midday daylight (13:00 CET March) — no sun disk visible, no shadows, but everything evenly and brightly lit. The temperature of 12.5°C shows in early-spring vegetation: bare deciduous trees with the first haze of green buds, patches of brown and fresh green grass, damp earth. The low electricity price of 16.1 EUR/MWh is evoked by an open, calm, spacious composition with wide vistas and gentle atmospheric perspective. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous sky treatment — but with meticulous modern engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. The painting conveys the monumental industrial-pastoral character of Germany's energy transition. No text, no labels, no people.
Grid data: 11 March 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-11T14:37 UTC · Download image