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Grid Poet — 25 March 2026, 13:00
Wind dominates at 39.5 GW with 16.6 GW solar, driving renewables to 87% and prices to zero.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at 13:00 on 25 March 2026 is dominated by wind, with onshore and offshore facilities jointly delivering 39.5 GW — over half of the 70.4 GW total generation. Solar contributes 16.6 GW despite 91% cloud cover, likely reflecting high diffuse irradiance and the relatively strong direct component of 491 W/m². Total generation exceeds the 67.1 GW domestic load by 3.3 GW, resulting in a net export of approximately 3.3 GW. The day-ahead price has settled at effectively zero, consistent with the 86.9% renewable share and modest net export; residual load of 11.0 GW is being met by a conventional baseload mix of brown coal (4.0 GW), biomass (4.0 GW), natural gas (2.7 GW), and hard coal (2.5 GW), none of which have incentive to ramp down further at this price.
Grid poem Claude AI
A grey March sky roars with invisible force — a continent of spinning blades pushes the price to nothing, and the old coal towers stand idle-eyed, exhaling thin breath into a world that barely needs them. The grid hums at the edge of abundance, balanced on a knife of wind.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 47%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 24%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 6%
87%
Renewable share
39.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
16.6 GW
Solar
70.4 GW
Total generation
+3.3 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.0°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
91% / 491.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
92
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 32.7 GW dominates the entire right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade wind turbines stretching across rolling early-spring German hills, their rotors spinning visibly in strong wind; wind offshore 6.8 GW appears in the far right background as a line of taller turbines on a grey North Sea horizon. Solar 16.6 GW occupies a broad mid-ground plateau as fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels reflecting diffuse grey-white light under heavy overcast. Brown coal 4.0 GW sits at the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin steam plumes. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered adjacent as a mid-sized timber-clad biomass plant with a low smokestack and wood-chip storage silos, equal visual weight to the brown coal. Natural gas 2.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, set between the coal and biomass. Hard coal 2.5 GW is a smaller gantry-crane coal plant with a single square stack and small coal yard. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small concrete run-of-river weir in a stream in the lower foreground. The sky is 91% overcast — a high flat grey cloud layer — but with a bright diffuse patch where the sun pushes through at early afternoon zenith, casting flat shadowless midday light across the landscape. Temperature is 6°C: early spring, dormant brown-green grass, bare trees just beginning to bud, patches of old snow in shaded hollows. Strong wind bends the grass and bare branches. The atmosphere feels calm and open, reflecting a near-zero electricity price — no oppressive weight, just quiet industrial equilibrium. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich earth tones, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell edge, every cooling tower's parabolic concrete ribs. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 25 March 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-26T02:08 UTC · Download image