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Grid Poet — 13 May 2026, 14:00
Solar (28 GW) and onshore wind (18.7 GW) dominate under full overcast, driving 8.5 GW net exports at moderate prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 on a fully overcast May afternoon, the German grid is generating 63.1 GW against 54.6 GW of consumption, yielding a net export position of approximately 8.5 GW. Solar contributes 28.0 GW despite complete cloud cover—consistent with high diffuse irradiance from a bright overcast sky at peak solar hours—while onshore wind adds a solid 18.7 GW, together delivering 83.1% renewable share. Thermal baseload remains notable: brown coal at 4.9 GW and hard coal at 2.3 GW continue dispatching, alongside 3.5 GW of natural gas, reflecting either contractual obligations, must-run constraints, or hedged positions at a day-ahead price of 70.2 EUR/MWh that still justifies marginal coal economics. The moderate price despite substantial renewable output and net exports suggests healthy cross-border demand absorption and no significant curtailment pressure at this hour.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a pewter sky the panels drink what light the clouds allow, and turbines turn their patient arms across the Saxon plains. Coal smoke still threads the grey like memory refusing to dissolve, while electrons spill beyond the border like a river past its banks.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 44%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 8%
83%
Renewable share
18.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.0 GW
Solar
63.1 GW
Total generation
+8.5 GW
Net export
70.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.4°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 92.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
118
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 28.0 GW dominates the foreground and right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land, their surfaces reflecting a pale, diffuse white-grey light; onshore wind 18.7 GW fills the middle distance and left-centre as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning slowly in light wind; brown coal 4.9 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip-fired plant with a single broad stack and stored timber piles beside it, positioned between the coal plant and wind turbines; natural gas 3.5 GW sits as a compact modern CCGT facility with slim exhaust stacks and a visible heat shimmer, placed just left of centre; hard coal 2.3 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single square cooling tower and conveyor belt, adjacent to the brown coal complex; hydro 1.6 GW is a small run-of-river weir visible along a river in the mid-ground. The sky is entirely overcast at 14:00 in May—full diffuse daylight, bright but sunless, a uniform pearl-white to dove-grey cloud ceiling with no blue patches and no direct sun disc visible, yet the landscape is well-lit. The atmosphere feels slightly heavy and close, reflecting a 70 EUR/MWh price—not oppressive but weighted, with a faint humid haze near the horizon. Vegetation is lush mid-spring green: rapeseed fields in yellow bloom, fresh beech and linden foliage, grass bright and saturated. Temperature is cool at 11°C, suggested by figures in light jackets near the solar field. 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 confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding through multiple planes of energy infrastructure, dramatic yet measured composition. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelle housings, three-blade rotor geometry, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic curvature, steam thermodynamics. No text, no labels, no UI elements.
Grid data: 13 May 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-13T13:54 UTC · Download image