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Grid Poet — 26 March 2026, 12:00
Strong wind and high diffuse solar drive 79% renewables, creating 19 GW net exports at near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany is generating 81.9 GW against domestic consumption of 62.9 GW, yielding a net export of 19.0 GW — a substantial volume consistent with the near-floor day-ahead price of 3.1 EUR/MWh. Wind onshore (25.6 GW) and solar (28.6 GW) together deliver 54.2 GW, forming the backbone of today's midday supply despite 88% cloud cover limiting direct irradiance to just 51.5 W/m²; diffuse radiation from the extensive cloud deck is evidently sustaining a strong solar fleet output. Brown coal (7.7 GW) and hard coal (5.5 GW) continue to run at levels reflecting must-run constraints and contractual obligations rather than economic dispatch at this price, while gas (4.0 GW) likely serves balancing and CHP heat demand given the 5.5 °C temperature. The 79% renewable share and deeply negative residual load represent a typical spring midday pattern where wind and solar coincide strongly, depressing prices across the Central European market.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines roar across a pale March sky while sunlight, veiled yet vast, floods the lowlands with invisible fire. Coal towers exhale their ancient breath into a world that scarcely needs them, and the price of power falls to nearly nothing.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 35%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 9%
79%
Renewable share
30.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.6 GW
Solar
81.9 GW
Total generation
+19.0 GW
Net export
3.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
5.5°C / 26 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
88.0% / 51.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
152
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 28.6 GW dominates the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land under a bright but heavily overcast sky; wind onshore 25.6 GW fills the centre and extends into the distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in strong wind, blades slightly motion-blurred; wind offshore 5.3 GW appears on the far horizon as a row of turbines standing in a grey sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain; brown coal 7.7 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of four massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting and shearing in the wind; hard coal 5.5 GW sits beside them as a smaller power station with a tall chimney stack and coal conveyor infrastructure; natural gas 4.0 GW appears as a compact modern CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and modest smokestack near the centre-left; hydro 1.0 GW is a small run-of-river weir with visible white water in a stream in the foreground. The time is noon in late March in central Germany — full diffuse daylight, no direct sun visible, a flat white-grey cloud deck at 88% coverage with occasional brighter patches where the sun tries to break through, the sky luminous but shadowless. Temperature is 5.5°C: early spring, bare deciduous trees with the faintest hint of budding green, brown stubble fields, patches of old snow in shadows. Wind at 26 km/h bends the bare branches and ripples standing water in the foreground. The low electricity price manifests as a calm, open, expansive atmosphere — no oppressive haze, the air clear despite the clouds. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich earth tones, cool greys and greens, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with hazy distance. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, PV module gridlines, cooling tower parabolic profiles, steam condensation physics. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 26 March 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-26T11:20 UTC · Download image