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Grid Poet — 25 March 2026, 14:00
Strong onshore wind and diffuse solar dominate at 84% renewables, pushing exports to 4.3 GW and prices to zero.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 CET on 25 March 2026, German renewables supply 84.2% of generation, driven by strong onshore wind at 31.0 GW and 6.8 GW offshore, complemented by 16.6 GW of solar despite near-total cloud cover — diffuse irradiance and residual direct radiation of 179 W/m² still yield significant PV output. Thermal baseload remains online with brown coal at 5.5 GW, hard coal at 2.6 GW, and gas at 3.0 GW, likely constrained by must-run obligations and reserve requirements. Total generation of 70.5 GW against consumption of 66.2 GW yields a net export of 4.3 GW to neighboring markets, consistent with the day-ahead price collapsing to 0.0 EUR/MWh. The zero clearing price signals ample supply across the coupled European market, a routine occurrence during high-wind, moderate-demand spring afternoons.
Grid poem Claude AI
A thousand blades carve the grey March sky, their harvest so vast the grid gives its power away for nothing. Beneath the overcast, coal towers exhale pale ghosts that linger like debts the wind has not yet fully erased.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 44%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 24%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 8%
84%
Renewable share
37.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
16.6 GW
Solar
70.5 GW
Total generation
+4.3 GW
Net export
0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.8°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99% / 179.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
113
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 31.0 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green-brown early-spring hills from the centre to the far right horizon, rotors spinning visibly in strong wind; wind offshore 6.8 GW appears as a distant line of tall turbines rising from a grey North Sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain at the far right; solar 16.6 GW is rendered as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels in the middle ground, their glass surfaces reflecting the flat white-grey light of a fully overcast sky; brown coal 5.5 GW occupies the left foreground as a lignite power station with two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes bending in the wind; hard coal 2.6 GW sits just right of the brown coal complex as a smaller conventional plant with a single tall stack and thin grey exhaust; natural gas 3.0 GW is a compact modern CCGT facility with a clean cylindrical exhaust stack and a modest heat-shimmer plume, positioned between the coal plants and the solar fields; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial building with a wood-chip storage dome and a short smokestack with faint vapour, nestled among bare early-spring trees at left-centre; hydro 1.0 GW is a small run-of-river weir with turbine house visible along a river in the lower foreground. The sky is 99% overcast at 14:00 in late March — full diffuse daylight, bright but shadowless, a uniform blanket of pale grey stratiform cloud with no blue visible, light evenly distributed. Temperature near 6°C: vegetation is dormant, grass pale green-brown, deciduous trees bare, patches of mud. Wind at 21 km/h bends the bare branches and ruffles puddles. The atmosphere feels calm and open, reflecting the zero electricity price — no oppressive weight, just a vast quiet industrial landscape under an even sky. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with meticulous industrial realism, rich muted earth tones and greys, visible confident brushwork, dramatic sense of scale where the turbine fields dwarf the thermal plants. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 25 March 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-26T03:08 UTC · Download image