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Grid Poet — 9 May 2026, 14:00
Solar at 41.6 GW drives 91% renewables, yielding 10.2 GW net exports and a near-zero clearing price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 41.6 GW, supplying 77% of total generation despite 75% cloud cover — diffuse irradiance combined with 308 W/m² direct radiation still drives exceptional PV output at this midday hour. Wind contributes just 1.9 GW combined, consistent with near-calm conditions at 1.3 km/h. Thermal baseload remains online with brown coal at 2.7 GW, biomass at 3.9 GW, and gas at 1.7 GW, likely operating near technical minimums or providing contracted reserves. Generation exceeds consumption by 10.2 GW, resulting in net exports of approximately that magnitude, which fully explains the day-ahead price settling at effectively zero — a routine outcome on high-solar spring afternoons with depressed continental demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
A golden flood pours from a veiled sky, drowning the wires in light no one has bid to buy. The old coal towers stand idle-breathed, museum guards in a kingdom bequeathed.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 77%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
1.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.6 GW
Solar
53.9 GW
Total generation
+10.2 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.4°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
75% / 308.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
64
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 41.6 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across more than three-quarters of the landscape, their aluminium frames glinting under diffuse afternoon daylight filtering through a high, partly overcast sky. Brown coal 2.7 GW appears at the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thin, lazy steam plumes. Biomass 3.9 GW occupies a modest cluster of timber-sided biogas plants with rounded digesters and short stacks just left of centre. Natural gas 1.7 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal visible exhaust. Wind onshore 1.6 GW shows a small row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir at the lower right with water cascading gently. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single small conventional boiler stack at the far edge, thin wisp of smoke. Wind offshore 0.3 GW is faintly suggested by tiny turbines on a hazy horizon line. The sky is 75% covered with layered alto-cumulus and strato-cumulus clouds, with patches of blue and shafts of direct sunlight breaking through — full 14:00 May daylight, warm and bright but not harsh. The landscape is lush central-German spring: fresh green grass, beech and oak in full young leaf, dandelions dotting meadow edges, temperature a mild 16°C. The air is calm, no motion in trees or grass. The atmosphere is tranquil and open, reflecting the zero electricity price — no oppressive haze, no tension. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated greens and warm golds, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into blue-grey distance, the grandeur of Caspar David Friedrich merged with meticulous industrial-technical accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 9 May 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-09T13:54 UTC · Download image