Grid Poet — 12 March 2026, 15:00
Wind (27.6 GW) and solar (24.4 GW) dominate under clear skies, driving 6.0 GW net exports and near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid is in a powerful renewable surplus state: 27.6 GW of wind (onshore + offshore) and 24.4 GW of solar combine for 52.0 GW of clean generation, supplemented by 4.0 GW biomass and 1.2 GW hydro, yielding an 86.5% renewable share. Total generation of 66.2 GW exceeds the 60.2 GW domestic consumption, producing a net export of 6.0 GW to neighboring countries. The day-ahead price has cratered to just 3.6 EUR/MWh, reflecting the massive oversupply of near-zero marginal cost renewables that is suppressing thermal dispatch. Fossil plants are running at minimum stable generation levels — 3.6 GW brown coal, 1.9 GW hard coal, and 3.5 GW natural gas — likely constrained by must-run obligations or contractual commitments rather than economic merit.
Grid poem Claude AI
Under a blazing March sun, a thousand steel blades carve the wind into gold while silicon fields drink the cloudless sky — the old furnaces smolder on, embers of a fading age, their smoke thinning against an empire of light. The grid breathes out its bounty across every border, and the price of power falls like a whisper no one needs to hear.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 37%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 5%
86%
Renewable share
27.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.4 GW
Solar
66.2 GW
Total generation
+5.9 GW
Net export
3.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.6°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
2% / 262.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
92
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 22.6 GW dominates the right two-fifths of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles stretching across rolling green hills into atmospheric haze, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind. Solar 24.4 GW fills the centre-right foreground and middle ground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled southward, glinting brilliantly under direct sunlight. Wind offshore 5.0 GW appears in the far background-right as a line of tall turbines rising from a distant flat horizon suggesting the North Sea. Biomass 4.0 GW occupies the centre-left as a cluster of medium-scale industrial facilities with wood-chip silos and modest steam stacks. Brown coal 3.6 GW sits on the far left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin wisps of steam, dwarfed by the renewable installations. Natural gas 3.5 GW appears left-of-centre as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and low-profile turbine halls. Hard coal 1.9 GW is a small darker power station partially behind the brown coal complex with a single square cooling tower. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway in a valley at the far left edge. The sky is almost completely clear with only the faintest trace of high cirrus — brilliant, expansive, luminous mid-afternoon March daylight at 15:00 CET casting sharp shadows. The atmosphere is calm, open, and spacious, reflecting the rock-bottom electricity price. Early spring vegetation: fields showing fresh green shoots, bare deciduous trees with the first hints of budding, temperature around 12°C suggesting light jackets on any tiny human figures. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich warm golden daylight tones, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective fading to pale blue at the horizon — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curvature and concrete texture. The composition evokes Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale, with the renewable infrastructure replacing mountains as symbols of overwhelming natural-industrial grandeur. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 12 March 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-12T17:10 UTC · Download image