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Grid Poet — 10 May 2026, 12:00
Solar at 42.4 GW drives 13.3 GW net exports and a slightly negative price at midday.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates this midday hour at 42.4 GW, accounting for 74.5% of total generation despite 100% reported cloud cover — the 393 W/m² direct radiation figure suggests broken or thin cloud layers rather than truly overcast conditions. Wind contributes a modest 4.8 GW combined (onshore 1.7 GW, offshore 3.1 GW), consistent with the very light 3.3 km/h surface winds. With consumption at 43.6 GW and total generation at 56.9 GW, Germany is net exporting approximately 13.3 GW, which has pushed the day-ahead price to −1.9 EUR/MWh. Brown coal at 2.4 GW and gas at 1.6 GW remain online at minimum stable generation levels, reflecting must-run constraints and ancillary service obligations rather than economic dispatch signals.
Grid poem Claude AI
A cathedral of glass and silicon drinks the hidden sun, flooding the wires with more light than the nation can hold. The old furnaces murmur at idle, waiting in the wings of a stage they no longer command.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 75%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
4.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
42.4 GW
Solar
56.9 GW
Total generation
+13.2 GW
Net export
-1.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.3°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 393.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
53
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 42.4 GW dominates the entire scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly three-quarters of the composition. Wind offshore 3.1 GW appears in the distant right background as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines rising from a hazy horizon suggesting the North Sea. Wind onshore 1.7 GW is represented by a small group of lattice-towered three-blade turbines on a low ridge at centre-right. Biomass 3.9 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fed power station with a squat smokestack and stored timber piles at centre-left. Brown coal 2.4 GW occupies the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin, lazy steam plumes, visually reduced in scale to match its minor share. Natural gas 1.6 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley in the mid-left distance. Hard coal 0.4 GW is barely visible as a single small stack behind the brown coal towers. Lighting: full midday daylight at noon in May, bright but with a high thin overcast — the sky is a luminous white-grey veil through which the sun disc is faintly visible, casting soft diffuse shadows across the solar fields. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and expansive — no oppressive weight — reflecting the negative electricity price. Spring vegetation: fresh green meadows, young leaves on scattered deciduous trees, wildflowers at field edges, temperature around 18°C suggesting pleasant warmth. Air is nearly still — no motion in grasses or turbine blades barely turning. 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, luminous atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's reinforced concrete ribs. The scene reads as a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 10 May 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-10T11:53 UTC · Download image