📦 This is the legacy version. Visit move37.app for the new Grid Poet with live data and better charts! 🚀
Grid Poet — 5 April 2026, 11:00
Solar (29.8 GW) and wind (19.3 GW) drive 91.7% renewables, pushing prices to −71.3 EUR/MWh amid 13 GW net exports.
Back
Grid analysis Claude AI
At 11:00 CEST on a spring Sunday morning, the German grid is experiencing a pronounced renewable oversupply. Solar contributes 29.8 GW despite full cloud cover, reflecting the sheer scale of installed PV capacity even under diffuse radiation conditions; combined with 19.3 GW of wind generation, renewables reach 91.7% of the 59.4 GW generation mix. Net exports stand at approximately 13.0 GW, as domestic consumption of only 46.4 GW cannot absorb the available generation, driving the day-ahead price to −71.3 EUR/MWh. Dispatchable thermal plants remain partially online — brown coal at 2.5 GW and gas at 1.9 GW — likely constrained by must-run obligations and system inertia requirements, while their marginal costs further deepen the negative price signal.
Grid poem Claude AI
A grey spring sky pours invisible light upon ten million silent panels, and the grid groans under a wealth it cannot spend. The turbines turn their slow hymn across the lowlands while coal smolders in quiet penance, paying the world to take its power.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 50%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
19.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
29.8 GW
Solar
59.4 GW
Total generation
+13.0 GW
Net export
-71.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.5°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 56.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
57
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 29.8 GW dominates the centre and right as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting a dull white overcast sky; wind onshore 17.9 GW fills the mid-ground and far distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning gently in moderate breeze; wind offshore 1.4 GW appears as a faint cluster of turbines on the far-left horizon above a sliver of grey sea; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a modest wood-fired power station with a square stack and wispy steam plume at the left foreground; brown coal 2.5 GW appears as two hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thin white steam columns behind the biomass plant; natural gas 1.9 GW sits as a compact CCGT unit with a single gleaming exhaust stack beside the cooling towers; hydro 1.1 GW is a small concrete weir and low dam visible along a river cutting through the middle ground; hard coal 0.5 GW is a single smaller smokestack with barely visible exhaust near the brown coal towers. Time is 11:00 on an April morning: full diffuse daylight, entirely overcast with a flat white-grey cloud ceiling at moderate altitude, no sun disc visible, soft shadowless illumination. Temperature 14.5 °C: early spring green on deciduous trees, fresh grass, some bare branches remaining. The atmosphere feels calm and open despite the clouds, reflecting deeply negative electricity prices — no oppressive heaviness, just a quiet, spacious stillness over a landscape overwhelmed by clean energy. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous overcast sky with subtle tonal gradations, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower flute, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 5 April 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-05T11:17 UTC · Download image