Grid Poet — 13 March 2026, 10:00
Wind (33.2 GW) and solar (28.2 GW) dominate Germany's grid at 94.8% renewables, driving prices negative.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at 10:00 on this March morning is overwhelmingly renewable at 94.8%, with wind onshore (28.0 GW) and solar (28.2 GW) contributing nearly equally as co-dominant sources, supplemented by 5.2 GW offshore wind. Despite 100% cloud cover, diffuse and some direct radiation (139 W/m²) still drives substantial solar output. Brown coal provides 3.4 GW of inflexible baseload — the only conventional generation running. Domestic generation totals 64.6 GW against 66.0 GW consumption, indicating a net import of 1.4 GW, yet the day-ahead price has dropped to −5.0 EUR/MWh, reflecting massive renewable supply across the broader European market and limited flexibility to absorb it.
Grid poem Claude AI
A hundred thousand blades and panels sing in unison beneath a pewter sky, drowning the market price below zero with their tireless chorus. Only the ancient lignite towers still breathe their stubborn plumes, relics whispering against the renewable flood that has claimed the grid.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 43%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 44%
Brown coal 5%
95%
Renewable share
33.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.2 GW
Solar
64.6 GW
Total generation
-1.4 GW
Net import
-5.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.3°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 139.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
43
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#1 Clean Hour #1 Helle Brise #2 Storm Force
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Wind onshore 28.0 GW spans the entire right half and deep background as vast rolling fields of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind; wind offshore 5.2 GW appears on the far-right horizon as a cluster of offshore turbines rising from a grey North Sea band; solar 28.2 GW fills the centre-left foreground and middle ground as enormous arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently undulating farmland, their surfaces reflecting diffuse grey-white light; brown coal 3.4 GW occupies a small area at the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes beside a compact lignite plant with conveyor belts and coal bunkers. TIME AND LIGHT: 10:00 AM full daytime, but a completely overcast sky — heavy uniform grey-white cloud blanket from horizon to zenith, no direct sunlight, flat diffuse illumination with no shadows, a muted silver-grey tonality across the landscape. Early spring vegetation: bare deciduous trees with first hints of green buds, pale yellow-green grass on fields, patches of dark ploughed earth. Temperature around 9°C: cool atmosphere, slight ground mist in low valleys. Wind at 22 km/h visibly bends grasses and moves tree branches, turbine blades in dynamic rotation blur. The negative electricity price evokes a serene, open, almost weightless atmosphere — no oppression, vast spacious sky. Composition has immense depth: foreground PV panels in sharp detail, mid-ground turbines marching into the distance, lignite towers small but distinctly present at the left edge with their rising steam. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour despite the overcast palette, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric perspective with hazy distance, meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, rotor hubs, PV cell grids, and cooling tower ribbing. The scene feels like a Caspar David Friedrich industrial sublime — vast, contemplative, overwhelmingly green-powered. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 March 2026, 10:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-13T11:10 UTC · Download image