Grid Poet — 21 March 2026, 12:00
Solar at 31.1 GW leads a 76% renewable midday mix, with brown coal providing 7.1 GW of thermal baseload.
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Solar dominates the generation stack at 31.1 GW despite 81% cloud cover, reflecting the strength of Germany's installed PV capacity under diffuse spring irradiance with 199 W/m² direct radiation still breaking through. Brown coal holds a firm baseload position at 7.1 GW, complemented by 2.3 GW hard coal and 3.1 GW natural gas, yielding a residual load of 16.7 GW — a level consistent with thermal units running near minimum stable generation. Total generation exceeds consumption by 0.9 GW, indicating a modest net export. The day-ahead price of 23.5 EUR/MWh is subdued, reflecting comfortable supply conditions with a 76.4% renewable share during the midday solar peak.
Grid poem Claude AI
A pale sun presses through veiled skies, flooding silent panels with quiet, diffused fire, while ancient coal still breathes its grey refrain beneath the spring horizon. The grid hums in uneasy truce — old carbon and new light sharing the same restless hour.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 59%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 13%
76%
Renewable share
4.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.1 GW
Solar
52.9 GW
Total generation
+1.0 GW
Net export
23.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.7°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
81% / 199.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
172
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 31.1 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their blue-grey surfaces catching diffused midday light; brown coal 7.1 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into overcast sky, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip power station with a tall industrial chimney and timber storage yard; wind onshore 3.8 GW is rendered as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice-free tubular towers along a ridge, blades turning slowly in light wind; natural gas 3.1 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with a gleaming single exhaust stack and low heat-recovery unit emitting a thin vapour trail; hard coal 2.3 GW is a smaller brick-and-steel coal plant with two square chimneys behind the lignite complex; hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete dam and penstock visible along a river in the valley; wind offshore 0.3 GW is barely visible as tiny turbine silhouettes on the far hazy horizon. The sky is mostly overcast at 81% cloud cover — a bright but hazy high-layered March sky at noon, with patches of pale sunlight breaking through in soft god-rays illuminating the solar fields. Early spring vegetation: bare deciduous trees beginning to bud, bright green grass on cool 9.7°C hillsides. The atmosphere is calm, luminous, and open, reflecting a low 23.5 EUR/MWh price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower rib, every PV panel frame — a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 21 March 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-21T13:08 UTC · Download image