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Grid Poet — 28 April 2026, 15:00
Solar at 42 GW and wind at 12 GW drive 90% renewables, pushing 13 GW net exports and negative prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates this afternoon snapshot at 42.1 GW, representing 63.5% of total generation, supported by 12.4 GW combined onshore and offshore wind. Despite 100% reported cloud cover, direct irradiance of 465 W/m² indicates broken or thin cloud layers allowing substantial solar throughput — consistent with high-level cirrus or rapidly clearing conditions. With total generation at 66.3 GW against 53.0 GW consumption, Germany is a net exporter of approximately 13.3 GW, driving the day-ahead price to −17.3 EUR/MWh. Thermal baseload remains online with 3.4 GW brown coal and 2.0 GW gas, likely reflecting must-run obligations and balancing requirements, while biomass contributes a steady 4.1 GW.
Grid poem Claude AI
A golden tide of silicon light floods the land with more than it can hold, spilling power across every border like an overflowing river. The old coal towers stand stubborn in the haze, their slow breath a murmur beneath the roaring sun.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 64%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
12.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
42.1 GW
Solar
66.3 GW
Total generation
+13.3 GW
Net export
-17.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.2°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 465.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
70
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 42.1 GW dominates the entire foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under bright but hazy daylight filtered through a uniformly thin overcast sky; wind onshore 11.6 GW fills the right third of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning moderately in a 14 km/h breeze across green rolling hills with spring vegetation at 17°C; wind offshore 0.8 GW appears as a faint cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a pale strip of sea; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground cluster of compact wood-chip power stations with modest chimneys trailing thin white exhaust; brown coal 3.4 GW occupies the left background as three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with heavy white steam plumes rising into the overcast; natural gas 2.0 GW appears as a single compact CCGT plant with a clean silver exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer beside the cooling towers; hard coal 1.1 GW is a smaller dark brick boiler house with a single smokestack adjacent to the lignite plant; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and reservoir visible in a valley on the far left. The sky is a uniform bright white-grey thin overcast at 15:00 in late April, with diffuse but strong light casting soft shadows — no harsh sun disk visible but everything brightly lit. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and spacious, reflecting the deeply negative electricity price. Lush green April meadows, budding deciduous trees, and wildflowers frame the foreground panels. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into a luminous haze — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module busbar, cooling tower shell, and gas turbine exhaust detail. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 28 April 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-28T14:53 UTC · Download image