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Grid Poet — 3 May 2026, 15:00
Solar at 32.4 GW and onshore wind at 11.2 GW drive massive net exports under negative prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 15:00 on a spring afternoon, solar dominates at 32.4 GW despite full cloud cover, reflecting the sheer scale of installed PV capacity and the contribution of diffuse radiation. Onshore wind adds 11.2 GW while offshore contributes a negligible 0.3 GW. Total generation of 54.0 GW against consumption of 32.1 GW yields a net export of approximately 21.9 GW, consistent with the negative day-ahead price of −4.0 EUR/MWh, which signals oversupply and likely cross-border flows into neighboring markets. Thermal baseload remains online at modest levels — brown coal at 2.4 GW, gas at 1.8 GW, hard coal at 0.7 GW — reflecting must-run constraints and ancillary service commitments rather than economic dispatch in a negative-price environment.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a silver veil the panels drink what light the clouds allow, flooding the grid with more than it can hold. The price falls below zero like a river finding ground lower than the sea, and still the turbines turn.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 60%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
91%
Renewable share
11.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.4 GW
Solar
54.0 GW
Total generation
+21.9 GW
Net export
-4.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.8°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 100.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
62
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#1 Export Champion
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Solar 32.4 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire right two-thirds of the composition, covering gently rolling green spring fields under full overcast daylight. Onshore wind 11.2 GW fills the centre-left as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on white lattice and tubular towers, blades turning gently in moderate breeze, receding into atmospheric haze. Biomass 3.9 GW appears as a cluster of modest wood-chip power stations with short stacks and thin white exhaust plumes in the mid-ground left. Brown coal 2.4 GW sits in the far left background as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick steam columns, with a lignite conveyor belt visible at their base. Natural gas 1.8 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer, positioned between the cooling towers and the biomass plant. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete weir and run-of-river powerhouse along a stream in the lower left foreground. Hard coal 0.7 GW is a single smaller smokestack beside the brown coal complex. The sky is a uniform blanket of pale grey stratus clouds at 100% cover, but the scene is fully lit by bright diffuse afternoon daylight — 15:00 in May — giving a soft, shadowless luminosity across the landscape. The air feels calm and open, reflecting the negative electricity price. Temperature is a warm 21.8 °C; lush spring foliage — bright green deciduous trees, wildflowers in meadow strips — frames the foreground. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich colour, visible brushwork, atmospheric depth, and meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 3 May 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-03T14:53 UTC · Download image