Grid Poet — 17 March 2026, 11:00
Solar leads at 25.9 GW under overcast skies; low wind keeps coal and gas firmly dispatched at elevated prices.
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At 11:00 CET, Germany's generation fleet produces 59.7 GW against a consumption of 64.9 GW, requiring approximately 5.2 GW of net imports. Solar contributes 25.9 GW despite 99% cloud cover and only 37 W/m² direct radiation, indicating strong diffuse irradiance across the country's large installed PV base. Brown coal at 10.6 GW and hard coal at 5.2 GW remain firmly dispatched alongside 5.6 GW of natural gas, reflecting the 31.8 GW residual load and a day-ahead price of 100.7 EUR/MWh — elevated but consistent with a cool March weekday with low wind. Combined wind generation of just 7.3 GW from 5.9 km/h surface winds is well below seasonal norms, keeping thermal plants online and supporting the higher clearing price.
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Beneath a sky sealed in iron-grey, diffuse light falls on silicon fields while coal towers exhale their ancient breath into the stillness. The wind has gone quiet, and the grid leans on smoldering stone to carry the hours forward.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 43%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 18%
64%
Renewable share
7.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.9 GW
Solar
59.7 GW
Total generation
-5.3 GW
Net import
100.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
4.9°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99% / 37.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
257
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 25.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a flat white sky; brown coal 10.6 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the overcast; hard coal 5.2 GW appears just left of centre as a dark industrial power station with tall brick stacks trailing grey smoke; natural gas 5.6 GW sits centre-left as compact CCGT units with slender polished exhaust stacks and smaller heat-recovery housings; wind onshore 2.9 GW is rendered as a handful of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a gentle hill at far centre, rotors barely turning; wind offshore 4.4 GW appears as a distant line of turbines on a grey North Sea horizon glimpsed through a gap between industrial structures; biomass 4.0 GW is a modest wood-chip plant with a green-roofed storage hall and a single low smokestack; hydro 1.2 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam in the foreground creek. The time is late morning: full diffuse daylight but no direct sun, a uniformly overcast 99% cloud ceiling pressing low and heavy, lending an oppressive weight consistent with 100.7 EUR/MWh pricing. Temperature is near 5 °C — bare deciduous trees with no leaves, faded brown grass, patches of lingering frost in shadows. Wind is almost still — no motion in flags or grass. The palette is muted: pewter sky, slate greys, dull greens, industrial ochre. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, dramatic Caspar David Friedrich–inspired composition — yet every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower contour, every PV panel frame is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 17 March 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-17T13:56 UTC · Download image