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Grid Poet — 25 April 2026, 17:00
Wind and solar dominate at 46.2 GW combined, driving 16.3 GW net exports and negative prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 17:00 CEST on 25 April 2026, the German grid is heavily oversupplied with renewables. Wind onshore (22.6 GW) and solar (23.6 GW) together account for 82% of generation, while total renewable share stands at 92.0%. Total generation of 59.5 GW against consumption of 43.2 GW yields a net export position of approximately 16.3 GW, consistent with the negative day-ahead price of −5.2 EUR/MWh as Germany pushes excess power into neighbouring markets. Thermal plants are running at minimal levels—gas at 1.9 GW, brown coal at 2.1 GW, hard coal at 0.8 GW—likely reflecting must-run constraints and contractual obligations rather than economic dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
A golden spring tide of wind and light floods the wires beyond all reckoning, spilling power across borders like a river that has forgotten its banks. The old coal furnaces stand nearly silent, their breath a faint whisper beneath the roar of turning blades and blazing glass.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 40%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
92%
Renewable share
25.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
23.6 GW
Solar
59.5 GW
Total generation
+16.3 GW
Net export
-5.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.1°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 479.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
54
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 22.6 GW dominates the right half and deep background as vast rows of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across green spring hills, blades turning in moderate wind; solar 23.6 GW fills the centre-left foreground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled toward the low western sun, glinting intensely; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-ground cluster of compact biomass plants with timber storage yards and modest chimneys releasing pale steam; wind offshore 3.0 GW is visible far in the background as a line of turbines standing in a hazy sea on the distant northern horizon; brown coal 2.1 GW occupies a small portion of the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin, sparse steam plumes, conveyor belts with lignite visible; natural gas 1.9 GW sits beside them as a single compact CCGT unit with a slender exhaust stack releasing a faint heat shimmer; hydro 1.2 GW is represented by a small weir and powerhouse nestled in a valley stream in the lower left; hard coal 0.8 GW appears as a single small stack behind the gas plant, barely smoking. Time of day is 17:00 in late April—dusk beginning, the sun sits low on the western horizon casting long golden-orange light across the landscape, the sky above transitions from warm amber near the horizon to a cooling pale blue overhead, with zero cloud cover creating a perfectly clear sky. Temperature is mild at 17°C; fresh green spring foliage covers deciduous trees, wildflowers dot meadow edges, grass is lush. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the negative electricity price—spacious, unburdened, luminous. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich, layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective—but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid pattern, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and CCGT exhaust detail. The composition conveys the overwhelming scale of renewables dwarfing the small thermal remnants. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 25 April 2026, 17:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-25T16:53 UTC · Download image