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Grid Poet — 4 April 2026, 13:00
Solar at 26.8 GW and wind at 24.9 GW drive 92% renewable share, pushing 11.9 GW net exports and near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at 13:00 on 4 April 2026 is dominated by renewables at 92.2%, with solar providing 26.8 GW and combined wind delivering 24.9 GW despite moderate surface winds and full cloud cover—diffuse irradiance of 155.5 W/m² under overcast skies still drives substantial PV output. Total generation of 61.7 GW against consumption of 49.8 GW yields a net export position of approximately 11.9 GW, consistent with the day-ahead price settling at effectively zero. Thermal generation is minimal: brown coal holds at 2.0 GW and gas at 2.1 GW for system services and inertia, with hard coal nearly offline at 0.8 GW. The negative residual load of −1.8 GW confirms that renewables alone exceed domestic demand, and the near-zero clearing price reflects the expected cross-border flow pressure typical of a high-renewable spring midday.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a veil of pewter cloud, the silent sun still floods the wires with more than a nation can hold. Wind and light conspire in abundance, and the grid exhales its riches across every open border.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 43%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
92%
Renewable share
24.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.8 GW
Solar
61.7 GW
Total generation
+11.9 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.8°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 155.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
52
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 26.8 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling Thuringian farmland, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a uniformly overcast white sky; wind onshore 21.2 GW fills the middle distance and horizon as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 3.7 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-left horizon above a hazy coastal strip; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial plant with a timber yard and a single smoking stack; natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a slender exhaust stack emitting thin heat shimmer, tucked left of centre; brown coal 2.0 GW sits at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with faint white steam plumes; hydro 1.1 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with spillway visible on a stream in the foreground; hard coal 0.8 GW is a single small conventional stack barely visible behind the cooling towers. The sky is entirely overcast with thick stratiform clouds, yet the scene is brightly lit with the flat, diffuse midday light of early April—no direct sun disk visible, no shadows, luminous grey-white ceiling. Temperature around 13 °C: early spring vegetation, pale green buds on deciduous trees, fresh grass. The atmosphere is calm and expansive, conveying abundance and quiet surplus. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 4 April 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-04T13:17 UTC · Download image