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Grid Poet — 31 March 2026, 13:00
Solar (28 GW) and wind (25.5 GW) dominate midday generation, driving 15.5 GW of net exports despite persistent coal dispatch.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 13:00 on 31 March 2026, renewables supply 74.6% of German generation, with solar contributing 28.0 GW and combined wind (onshore 21.5 GW, offshore 4.0 GW) adding 25.5 GW — together accounting for 68.0% of the 78.7 GW total. Domestic generation exceeds consumption by 15.5 GW, resulting in a net export of 15.5 GW, consistent with strong midday solar coinciding with moderate wind. Despite the comfortable renewable share, thermal baseload remains substantial: brown coal at 8.2 GW, hard coal at 5.7 GW, and natural gas at 6.1 GW continue dispatching, reflecting contractual obligations, ancillary service provision, and the slow ramp characteristics of lignite units. The day-ahead price of 55.2 EUR/MWh is moderate for a spring midday hour with this level of oversupply, suggesting either interconnector congestion limiting export capacity or elevated fuel and carbon costs keeping the marginal thermal unit in the money.
Grid poem Claude AI
A spring sun presses through scattered cloud, pouring golden watts upon the land while turbines carve the restless March wind into rivers of invisible force. Beneath the bright abundance, coal towers exhale their ancient breath — stubborn sentinels refusing to yield the grid they once commanded alone.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 36%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 10%
75%
Renewable share
25.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.0 GW
Solar
78.7 GW
Total generation
+15.5 GW
Net export
55.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.0°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
64.0% / 206.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
178
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 28.0 GW dominates the foreground and right half as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, reflecting midday light; wind onshore 21.5 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in 20 km/h wind; wind offshore 4.0 GW appears as a line of turbines on the far-right horizon above a distant grey sea; brown coal 8.2 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes from a lignite power station in the Rhineland style; hard coal 5.7 GW sits adjacent as a large coal plant with rectangular boiler houses and tall chimneys trailing thinner grey smoke; natural gas 6.1 GW appears as two compact CCGT units with single cylindrical exhaust stacks and modest heat-haze shimmer at centre-left; biomass 4.1 GW is a small wood-chip-fired plant with a squat stack and woodchip storage dome on the far left; hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with turbine house visible along a river in the left foreground. The sky is partly cloudy at 64% cover — broken cumulus clouds drifting across a bright midday March sky with direct sunshine breaking through gaps, casting dappled shadows across the landscape. Early spring vegetation: bare deciduous trees with first pale-green buds, brown-green grass, some yellow coltsfoot flowers at field edges. Temperature 8°C: cool, crisp atmosphere with clear distant visibility. The mood is bright but workmanlike — moderate price reflected in an open, airy sky without oppression. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — rendered with meticulous technical accuracy for every energy installation: correct turbine nacelle shapes, three-blade rotors, PV panel grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry, industrial piping. The scene reads as a masterwork panoramic industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 31 March 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-03-31T11:20 UTC · Download image