Grid Poet — 12 March 2026, 11:00
Wind dominates at 21.1 GW while Germany net imports 30.5 GW at near-zero prices on a breezy March morning.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Domestic generation totals only 35.1 GW against 65.6 GW consumption, meaning Germany is net importing approximately 30.5 GW — an enormous figure suggesting massive cross-border flows from neighbouring countries during this windy March morning. Wind dominates generation at 21.1 GW combined (onshore 15.2 GW + offshore 5.9 GW), constituting 60% of domestic output. Despite 52% cloud cover and 289.5 W/m² direct radiation, solar registers 0.0 GW — likely a data anomaly or all panels offline for this hour, though at 11:00 in March one would expect meaningful solar output. The near-zero day-ahead price of €0.30/MWh signals extreme oversupply across the broader European market, indicating that neighbouring countries are also flush with cheap renewable power, making the massive imports essentially free.
Grid poem Claude AI
Thirty gigawatts pour across the borders like invisible rivers of lightning, summoned by turbines screaming in the March wind. The price of power collapses to nearly nothing — a feast so abundant the grid can barely hold its breath.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 43%
Wind offshore 17%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 11%
75%
Renewable share
21.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
35.1 GW
Total generation
-30.5 GW
Net import
0.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.8°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
52% / 289.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
169
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#2 Import Peak
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Wind onshore 15.2 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling early-spring hills with pale green budding grass; wind offshore 5.9 GW appears as a distant horizon line of turbines standing in a grey North Sea visible through a valley gap at far right; brown coal 3.8 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with heavy white steam plumes rising vertically; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall rectangular stack and woodchip storage silos just behind the cooling towers; natural gas 3.3 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single slender exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, placed left of centre; hard coal 1.6 GW is a smaller coal plant with a single squat cooling tower and coal conveyor visible at far left edge; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a wooded ravine at left. The time is 11:00 AM in early March: full diffuse daylight under a sky that is roughly half covered with broken cumulus clouds, allowing patches of pale spring sunlight to fall across the landscape in shifting pools of brightness. No solar panels anywhere — zero solar generation. The atmosphere feels calm and open, almost weightless, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Bare-branched oaks and birches with the faintest haze of green buds line field edges; temperature around 9°C gives a cool crispness with faint ground mist in valleys. Overhead, high-voltage transmission lines on lattice pylons run prominently through the centre of the composition, emphasising the massive 30.5 GW of cross-border imports flowing into Germany. 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 aerial perspective with depth receding to misty blue horizons — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower concrete texture, and power line insulator. The painting feels monumental, luminous, and quietly awe-inspiring. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 12 March 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-12T13:10 UTC · Download image