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Grid Poet — 6 April 2026, 11:00
Solar at 38.7 GW overwhelms 42.8 GW demand, pushing prices to −59.8 EUR/MWh with 16.8 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 38.7 GW despite 68% cloud cover, benefiting from high direct irradiance of 401 W/m² typical of broken-cloud conditions in early April. Combined with 11.0 GW of wind and 5.2 GW of hydro and biomass, the renewable share reaches 92.0%. With total generation at 59.6 GW against consumption of 42.8 GW, Germany is net exporting approximately 16.8 GW, driving the day-ahead price to −59.8 EUR/MWh. Thermal plants remain online at modest levels — brown coal at 2.1 GW, natural gas at 1.8 GW, and hard coal at 0.8 GW — likely reflecting must-run obligations and contractual positions rather than economic dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
A flood of April light pours across ten million silicon faces, drowning the price beneath zero's dark horizon. The old coal towers still breathe their pale ghosts, but today the sun has seized the grid and will not let it go.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 65%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
11.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.7 GW
Solar
59.6 GW
Total generation
+16.8 GW
Net export
-59.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.7°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
68% / 400.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
54
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.7 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames gleaming under broken April clouds with shafts of direct sunlight piercing through. Wind onshore 9.9 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles arrayed along ridgelines in the middle distance, their blades turning gently in moderate wind. Wind offshore 1.1 GW is suggested by a faint cluster of turbines on the far horizon. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a modest wood-fired plant with a short stack and steam wisp nestled among bare-branched deciduous trees at the left edge. Hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with white water cascading in the lower-left foreground. Brown coal 2.1 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin steam plumes against the sky. Natural gas 1.8 GW sits beside them as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer. Hard coal 0.8 GW is a smaller industrial block with a single square chimney releasing a wisp of smoke. The sky is a complex interplay of cumulus clouds covering about two-thirds of the dome but letting brilliant April sunshine through wide gaps, casting dramatic shifting light and shadow across the landscape. Early spring vegetation — pale green buds on hedgerows, fresh grass, ploughed brown fields — at roughly 10°C. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the deeply negative electricity price: no oppressive haze, just luminous, airy depth. Time is 11:00 midday with the sun moderately high in the south-southeast. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into blue-grey distance — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell pattern, cooling tower curvature, and industrial stack. The painting conveys the overwhelming scale of solar generation flooding a spring landscape. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 6 April 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-06T11:17 UTC · Download image