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Grid Poet — 11 May 2026, 14:00
Wind (25.6 GW) and overcast solar (20.4 GW) dominate at 84% renewables; coal and gas cover residual load.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 on 11 May 2026, German renewables deliver 51.3 GW against 58.2 GW consumption, achieving an 84% renewable share. Wind contributes a combined 25.6 GW (onshore 19.8, offshore 5.8) while solar provides 20.4 GW despite full overcast — consistent with high diffuse irradiance from thick but bright cloud cover at midday in May. Thermal generation totals 9.7 GW, with brown coal at 4.5 GW providing baseload inertia, hard coal at 2.7 GW, and gas at 2.5 GW covering residual demand. Net generation exceeds consumption by 3.0 GW, indicating a modest net export; the day-ahead price of 96 EUR/MWh is elevated for an 84% renewable hour, likely reflecting tight capacity margins across interconnected markets or ramping costs associated with the coal and gas fleet still online.
Grid poem Claude AI
A pale May noon hides its sun behind an iron veil, yet the turbines roar their silver hymn across the plain, and dark towers of lignite exhale slow ghosts into the grey. The grid drinks deep from wind and diffused light, coal smoldering at the margins like an old fire not yet forgiven.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 33%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 7%
84%
Renewable share
25.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.4 GW
Solar
61.2 GW
Total generation
+3.0 GW
Net export
96.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.9°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
114
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 19.8 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across a rolling central German landscape of fresh spring-green fields and budding deciduous trees, their rotors spinning briskly in strong wind. Wind offshore 5.8 GW appears in the far-right background as a line of turbines standing in a grey North Sea horizon. Solar 20.4 GW fills the mid-ground with extensive arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled south across flat farmland, their surfaces reflecting only diffuse grey-white light — no direct sunlight, no sun disk visible. Brown coal 4.5 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes that merge into the overcast, with a lignite conveyor belt and open-pit mine edge visible. Hard coal 2.7 GW sits just right of the brown coal as a smaller coal-fired station with a single tall smokestack and rectangular boiler house. Natural gas 2.5 GW appears as a compact modern CCGT plant with a single sleek exhaust stack and smaller vapour plume beside the coal plants. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fed power plant with a cylindrical silo and low chimney trailing thin grey smoke, nestled among trees to the left-centre. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir with foaming white water in the lower foreground. The sky is entirely overcast with a thick, uniform layer of grey-white stratus clouds at 14:00 in May — full diffuse daylight, bright but shadowless, no sun visible anywhere. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 96 EUR/MWh price: the clouds press low, air feels dense, colours are muted and slightly desaturated. Temperature is a cool 6.9°C — the spring vegetation is fresh but restrained, some trees still bare. Wind bends the grass and ripples puddles. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich tonal depth, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric perspective with industrial subjects rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 May 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-12T07:54 UTC · Download image