📦 This is the legacy version. Visit move37.app for the new Grid Poet with live data and better charts! 🚀
Grid Poet — 20 May 2026, 10:00
Diffuse solar leads at 22 GW under full overcast, supported by 16.5 GW wind and 13.2 GW thermal, with 4.2 GW net imports.
Back
Grid analysis Claude AI
At 10:00 on a fully overcast May morning, the German grid draws 61.3 GW against 57.1 GW of domestic generation, requiring approximately 4.2 GW of net imports. Despite complete cloud cover limiting direct irradiance to just 11 W/m², diffuse solar still contributes a substantial 22.0 GW, combining with 16.5 GW of wind (11.3 onshore, 5.2 offshore) and 5.4 GW of hydro and biomass to push the renewable share to 76.8%. Brown coal remains baseloaded at 8.0 GW, with hard coal at 2.4 GW and gas at 2.8 GW providing the thermal complement; the residual load of 22.8 GW and a day-ahead price of 89.7 EUR/MWh reflect the moderate cost of filling the gap between intermittent renewables and mid-morning demand under unfavorable irradiance conditions.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky the turbines hum their tireless hymn, while coal towers exhale pale ghosts into a morning that refuses to brighten. Even robbed of sunlight, a million grey panels drink the diffuse glow and quietly insist on spring.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 38%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 14%
77%
Renewable share
16.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.0 GW
Solar
57.1 GW
Total generation
-4.2 GW
Net import
89.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.4°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 11.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
171
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 22.0 GW dominates the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, their surfaces reflecting only flat grey light under a uniformly overcast sky; brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the left background as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the low clouds; wind onshore 11.3 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers spread across the midground ridgelines, blades rotating slowly in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.2 GW is suggested on the far right horizon as a cluster of offshore turbines visible through haze above a distant river or coastline; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack with thin grey exhaust, positioned left of centre; natural gas 2.8 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and low rectangular turbine hall, placed between the coal station and the biomass plant; hard coal 2.4 GW shows as a second, smaller power station with a rectangular chimney and coal conveyor belt visible beside the brown coal complex; hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway on a wooded river in the right midground. The sky is entirely covered by heavy, layered stratiform clouds at 100% cover, no blue sky visible, no direct sunlight, flat diffuse daylight at 10:00 AM giving even illumination without shadows. The atmosphere feels oppressive and weighted, hinting at the 89.7 EUR/MWh price — a dense, close ceiling of cloud pressing down on the landscape. Spring vegetation: fresh green deciduous foliage on trees, green meadows, wildflowers, temperature around 14°C suggesting cool dampness. 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 in muted greens, greys, and earth tones, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with sfumato in the distance, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. The composition balances industrial sublime with pastoral spring landscape. No text, no labels, no people.
Grid data: 20 May 2026, 10:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-20T09:53 UTC · Download image