Grid Poet — 13 March 2026, 14:00
Strong onshore wind and diffuse solar dominate Germany's fully overcast grid, driving 6.5 GW net exports and near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at 14:00 on this March afternoon is awash in renewables at 85.5%, driven by a powerful combination of 29.6 GW wind (onshore + offshore) and 22.3 GW solar — the latter impressive given fully overcast skies, relying entirely on diffuse radiation. Total generation of 66.8 GW exceeds the 60.3 GW domestic consumption, yielding a net export of 6.5 GW to neighboring countries. The near-zero day-ahead price of 1.2 EUR/MWh signals an oversupplied market where thermal plants — 9.7 GW combined from brown coal, natural gas, and hard coal — are running at minimum stable generation or fulfilling contractual obligations rather than economic dispatch. The residual load figure of 8.3 GW (demand minus variable renewables) confirms that fossil and biomass baseload plants are largely providing system inertia and flexibility reserves rather than meeting any real energy shortfall.
Grid poem Claude AI
A hundred grey clouds cannot dim the harvest: steel blades and silicon drink the pale March light until the wires overflow with unwanted abundance. The smokestacks smolder on in quiet protest, their ancient fires burning low against a price that barely whispers.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 33%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 7%
86%
Renewable share
29.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.3 GW
Solar
66.8 GW
Total generation
+6.6 GW
Net export
1.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.9°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 28.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
100
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 25.4 GW dominates the scene, filling the right half and receding deep into the background as hundreds of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind, stretching across rolling green early-spring farmland with fresh shoots; wind offshore 4.2 GW appears in the far right distance as a line of turbines rising from a grey North Sea horizon glimpsed through a valley. Solar 22.3 GW occupies the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on angled racking systems reflecting the flat grey-white light of a completely overcast sky — no direct sun, no shadows, only diffuse illumination. Brown coal 4.4 GW anchors the left as two massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting lazy steam plumes drifting right, beside a lignite conveyor and open-pit mine edge. Biomass 4.0 GW sits centre-left as a cluster of industrial wood-chip silos and a modest stack with pale exhaust. Natural gas 3.3 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer. Hard coal 2.0 GW is a smaller coal-fired station with a rectangular cooling tower and dark conveyor belt, partially behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse on a stream in the left foreground. The sky is a uniform 100% overcast blanket of layered stratus clouds in soft pearl-grey and cream tones — full midday daylight at 14:00 but no blue sky, no sun disk visible, lighting is bright yet completely diffuse. Temperature 12.9°C: early spring atmosphere, bare deciduous trees with swelling buds, patches of green grass, a mild softness in the air. The low 1.2 EUR/MWh price is reflected in a calm, expansive, unhurried atmosphere — open farmland stretching to every horizon, no tension or oppression. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — combined with meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, PV module busbar, cooling tower concrete texture, and conveyor structure. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 March 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-13T15:10 UTC · Download image