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Grid Poet — 24 March 2026, 12:00
Solar (37 GW) and wind (31 GW) drive 22.6 GW net exports at near-zero prices under full overcast.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at midday on 24 March 2026 is dominated by a strong combination of solar (37.1 GW) and wind (30.6 GW combined onshore and offshore), yielding a 91.4% renewable share. Total generation of 79.7 GW against consumption of 57.1 GW produces a net export position of 22.6 GW, consistent with the day-ahead price settling at effectively zero. Despite full cloud cover, diffuse and partial direct radiation (132.5 W/m²) are sufficient to sustain robust solar output typical of a spring noon. Thermal baseload remains online at reduced levels — brown coal at 3.2 GW, gas at 2.4 GW, and hard coal at 1.2 GW — reflecting minimum-run obligations and ancillary service provision rather than economic dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
A torrent of wind and pale spring light drowns the grid in green abundance, pushing power past every border like a river that has forgotten its banks. The old coal towers exhale their thin breath into an overcast sky that no longer needs them.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 47%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
91%
Renewable share
30.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.1 GW
Solar
79.7 GW
Total generation
+22.6 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.4°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 132.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
59
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 37.1 GW dominates the centre and right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland; wind onshore 25.8 GW fills the far background and right third as dense rows of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning moderately in a breeze; wind offshore 4.8 GW appears as a distant cluster of offshore turbines on the far horizon; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a tall rectangular stack and steam wisps near the left-centre; brown coal 3.2 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising into heavy cloud; natural gas 2.4 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT plant with a single polished exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer; hard coal 1.2 GW is a smaller conventional boiler house with a single square chimney just visible behind the gas plant; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with a green-tinged channel in the lower left foreground. The sky is fully overcast with a thick, uniform layer of pale grey cloud, yet midday brightness illuminates the scene evenly with soft diffused light and no harsh shadows — it is clearly daytime, spring conditions. Bare-branching trees show the first pale green buds of late March; grass is fresh but short; temperature is mild. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting near-zero electricity prices. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into hazy distance — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve and concrete texture. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 24 March 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-24T15:11 UTC · Download image