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Grid Poet — 10 May 2026, 16:00
Solar at 26.4 GW drives 89% renewable share and near-zero prices despite full overcast skies.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 26.4 GW despite full cloud cover, benefiting from high diffuse radiation and long May daylight at 16:00 CEST; combined with 7.6 GW of wind and 4.1 GW of biomass, renewables supply 89.1% of generation. Total generation of 44.3 GW exceeds consumption of 39.2 GW, yielding a net export of approximately 5.1 GW, consistent with the near-zero day-ahead price of 1.9 EUR/MWh signaling ample supply across the Central European market. Thermal baseload remains modest: brown coal holds 2.6 GW of must-run capacity while natural gas contributes 1.8 GW, likely providing inertia and flexibility services rather than responding to price signals at this level. The low residual load of 5.2 GW and rock-bottom pricing suggest storage charging and cross-border flows are absorbing the renewable surplus comfortably.
Grid poem Claude AI
A river of light pours from a veiled sun, flooding the land with silent, abundant power no furnace can match. The old coal towers stand half-idle, breathing thin wisps into a sky that no longer belongs to them.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 60%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
7.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.4 GW
Solar
44.3 GW
Total generation
+5.1 GW
Net export
1.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.7°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 166.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
75
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 26.4 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green fields occupying roughly 60% of the canvas from right to centre-right; wind onshore 5.1 GW appears as a row of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers on gentle hills at centre-left, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 2.5 GW is visible as distant turbines on a hazy horizon line at far left; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground timber-clad power station with a tall stack and wood-chip storage yard; brown coal 2.6 GW occupies the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers emitting modest steam plumes beside a lignite conveyor belt; natural gas 1.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single polished exhaust stack and minimal exhaust haze next to the cooling towers; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a creek in the foreground; hard coal 0.4 GW is a single small smokestack barely active behind the gas plant. The sky is fully overcast with a uniform layer of bright white-grey clouds diffusing strong daylight at 4 PM in May, casting soft even illumination with no sharp shadows — the light is luminous but directionless. Temperature is a warm 20°C; vegetation is lush late-spring green with blooming wildflowers in field margins and full-canopied deciduous trees. The atmosphere is calm and serene, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colours, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into hazy distance — yet every technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine blade profiles, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic curves, steel lattice details. No text, no labels, no people.
Grid data: 10 May 2026, 16:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-10T15:53 UTC · Download image