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Grid Poet — 17 May 2026, 12:00
Solar at 38 GW overwhelms midday demand, driving near-zero prices and substantial net exports from the German grid.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates the generation mix at 38.0 GW despite full cloud cover, reflecting diffuse irradiance supplemented by moderate direct radiation of 368 W/m². Combined with 9.9 GW of wind and 5.2 GW from biomass and hydro, renewables supply 90.8% of generation. Total generation of 58.5 GW against consumption of 42.8 GW yields a negative residual load of -5.2 GW, with the remaining approximately 10.5 GW of excess generation beyond the residual load gap accounted for by net exports and curtailment; the day-ahead price has collapsed to 0.8 EUR/MWh accordingly. Brown coal continues baseloading at 3.0 GW and natural gas at 1.9 GW, both at low but non-trivial levels consistent with must-run obligations and ancillary service provision.
Grid poem Claude AI
A kingdom of silicon drinks the veiled sun's wealth, flooding the wires with power none can hold. The turbines hum their quiet excess into foreign lands, while coal smolders in the corner, a stubborn ember refusing to die.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 65%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
9.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.0 GW
Solar
58.5 GW
Total generation
+15.8 GW
Net export
0.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.9°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 368.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
64
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.0 GW dominates the scene as an immense foreground and middle-ground expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green spring fields, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition; wind onshore 7.0 GW appears as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on gentle hills to the right, their blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 2.9 GW is suggested by a distant row of turbines on the hazy horizon over a sliver of grey sea at far right; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-ground timber-clad biomass plant with a modest smokestack and woodchip storage; brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky; natural gas 1.9 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer; hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with foaming water visible at the left edge near a tree-lined riverbank; hard coal 0.5 GW is a single smaller stack barely visible behind the cooling towers. The sky is entirely overcast with a uniform blanket of pale grey-white clouds at midday — full diffuse daylight, bright but without direct sun or visible shadows, the light soft and even. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green grass, budding deciduous trees with young leaves, wildflowers dotting the meadows. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price — no oppressive haze, just gentle luminous overcast. Temperature around 14°C gives a cool, crisp feel. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to misty industrial silhouettes, the entire landscape rendered as a grand panoramic masterwork balancing pastoral beauty with meticulous engineering accuracy of each energy installation. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 17 May 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-17T11:53 UTC · Download image