Grid Poet — 13 March 2026, 12:00
Solar (30.5 GW) and wind (28.4 GW) dominate midday generation, driving 9.4 GW net exports and negative prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at midday on March 13, 2026 is overwhelmingly renewable at 88.4%, with solar contributing 30.5 GW and combined wind delivering 28.4 GW despite full cloud cover — the 82.8 W/m² of diffuse radiation still drives substantial PV output. Total generation of 72.8 GW exceeds consumption of 63.4 GW, yielding a net export of approximately 9.4 GW to neighboring countries. The negative day-ahead price of -8.3 EUR/MWh confirms oversupply, effectively paying neighbors to absorb excess power. Fossil plants remain partially online — brown coal at 3.4 GW and gas at 3.2 GW — likely due to must-run constraints and ancillary service requirements, while hard coal contributes a modest 1.8 GW.
Grid poem Claude AI
A March noon veiled in cloud yet blazing with invisible light — silicon fields and spinning towers flood the wires until the grid overflows, and Germany pays the world to drink its electric excess. The old coal giants stand smoldering in the margins, stubborn sentinels of a fading age, their steam lost against a pale and luminous sky.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 42%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
88%
Renewable share
28.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.5 GW
Solar
72.8 GW
Total generation
+9.4 GW
Net export
-8.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.5°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 82.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
78
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#3 Free Power #3 Storm Force
Image prompt
Solar 30.5 GW dominates the centre and right as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their glass surfaces reflecting diffuse white-grey light; wind onshore 23.2 GW fills the far background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers spinning briskly in strong wind, blades slightly motion-blurred; wind offshore 5.2 GW appears as a distant cluster of offshore turbines visible on a hazy horizon line at far right; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial biogas facility with rounded digesters and a small exhaust stack trailing thin vapour; brown coal 3.4 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting sideways in the wind; natural gas 3.2 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer beside the cooling towers; hard coal 1.8 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a rectangular boiler house and single chimney, modest smoke; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small weir and powerhouse on a river in the left foreground. The sky is fully overcast with a bright white-grey uniform cloud layer — full midday daylight but no direct sun, no shadows, a luminous flat light typical of an overcast March noon. Early spring landscape: bare deciduous trees just beginning to show pale green buds, patches of brown and green grass, mild 11.5°C atmosphere. The wind is visible through bent grasses, rippling puddles, and angled steam plumes. The atmosphere is calm and open despite the clouds, reflecting the negative electricity price — a sense of abundance and ease. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — rich layered colour, visible thick brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth from foreground river to distant turbine-studded hills, meticulous engineering detail on every technology: turbine nacelles, rotor hubs, PV module grid lines, cooling tower concrete ribbing, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 March 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-13T13:10 UTC · Download image