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Grid Poet — 11 May 2026, 11:00
Diffuse solar leads at 21.3 GW under full overcast, with wind at 17 GW; thermal fills the gap alongside 3.8 GW net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 11:00 on a fully overcast May morning, Germany's grid draws 60.4 GW against 56.6 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 3.8 GW of net imports. Despite complete cloud cover limiting direct irradiance to just 1 W/m², diffuse solar still contributes a substantial 21.3 GW — the single largest source — while onshore and offshore wind together deliver 17.0 GW on moderate winds. Brown coal provides a 7.0 GW baseload block, supplemented by 3.0 GW hard coal and 2.9 GW gas, reflecting the residual load of 22.1 GW that thermal plants and imports must cover. The day-ahead price of 113.4 EUR/MWh is elevated but consistent with a high-demand midday period where renewables alone cannot close the gap and multiple thermal units are dispatched.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky the turbines carve their silver arcs, while dark stacks of lignite breathe columns of pale steam into the grey — the grid, a restless balance between the wind's generosity and coal's stubborn anchor.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 38%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 12%
77%
Renewable share
16.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.3 GW
Solar
56.6 GW
Total generation
-3.7 GW
Net import
113.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.5°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 1.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
166
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 21.3 GW dominates the foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their surfaces reflecting only flat grey light under total overcast; wind onshore 13.0 GW fills the mid-ground as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers turning steadily across green spring pastures; wind offshore 4.0 GW appears in the far distance as a line of turbines on the hazy horizon above a grey North Sea strip; brown coal 7.0 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast ceiling; hard coal 3.0 GW stands beside it as a smaller plant with rectangular boiler houses and a single tall chimney trailing grey smoke; natural gas 2.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single exhaust stack and low-profile turbine hall; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of wood-clad biomass CHP plants with modest chimneys and stacked timber fuel piles; hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river weir with churning white water visible at the edge of a winding river. The sky is entirely blanketed in heavy, low stratus cloud — no sun disc visible, flat diffuse daylight at late-morning intensity, 11:00 Berlin time. Temperature is a cool 7.5 °C; spring vegetation is fresh bright green but muted under the oppressive grey sky. The atmosphere feels heavy and pressing, reflecting the high electricity price — thick cloud layers create a brooding weight over the landscape. Wind at 14.5 km/h bends young grass and causes visible blade rotation. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower's parabolic curve, every PV module's cell grid — a monumental industrial landscape rendered as a masterwork. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 May 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-11T10:53 UTC · Download image