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Grid Poet — 10 May 2026, 14:00
Solar at 38.1 GW overwhelms 40.1 GW demand, pushing 13.5 GW net exports and negative prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 38.1 GW, accounting for 71% of total output despite full cloud cover — the 397 W/m² direct irradiance indicates thin, high cloud rather than opaque overcast, which is consistent with strong midday diffuse and transmitted radiation in May. Total renewables reach 91.8% of generation. With consumption at 40.1 GW against 53.6 GW of domestic generation, Germany is a net exporter of approximately 13.5 GW, which is driving the day-ahead price to a mildly negative −1.4 EUR/MWh. Thermal baseload remains modest at 4.4 GW combined from lignite, gas, and hard coal, reflecting limited must-run obligations and contracted positions rather than any economic dispatch signal at current prices.
Grid poem Claude AI
A pale sun presses through a milky veil, drowning the grid in light no wire can hold. The turbines stand nearly still, while rivers of unwanted power spill across every border, and the price sinks below the zero line like a stone into quiet water.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 71%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
5.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.1 GW
Solar
53.6 GW
Total generation
+13.5 GW
Net export
-1.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.5°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 397.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
56
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.1 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition — thousands of aluminium-framed modules on low ground-mount racks, their glass surfaces reflecting a diffuse milky-white sky. Wind onshore 3.2 GW appears as a modest cluster of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a ridge at the upper left, rotors barely turning in the light 6 km/h breeze. Wind offshore 2.6 GW is suggested by a distant line of larger turbines on the hazy horizon far behind the panels. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a wood-chip power station with a short stack and a pile of timber beside it at the mid-left. Brown coal 2.3 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of steam in the far background, right of centre. Natural gas 1.7 GW shows as a single compact CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack, tucked behind the solar field at the right. Hydro 1.4 GW is depicted as a small dam and penstock on a wooded stream in the lower-right corner. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a barely visible older stack nearly lost in atmospheric haze at the far edge. The time is 14:00 on a warm May afternoon: full daylight but the sky is entirely overcast with a luminous white-grey cloud layer — bright and glaring, no blue patches, yet strong diffuse light illuminates everything evenly. Temperature 20.5 °C — lush green spring vegetation, deciduous trees fully leafed, wildflowers in meadow edges. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and spacious, matching the near-zero electricity price — no oppressive weight, just endless gentle light. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated greens and silvery greys, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant cooling towers — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 10 May 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-10T13:53 UTC · Download image