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Grid Poet — 5 April 2026, 11:00
Wind and solar together produce 74 GW under overcast skies, driving 36 GW of net exports and deeply negative prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 11:00 CEST on 5 April 2026, Germany's renewable generation reaches 94.1% of an 84.1 GW total, driven by 40.6 GW of wind (onshore 35.0, offshore 5.6) and 33.4 GW of solar despite full cloud cover — consistent with high diffuse irradiance across widespread PV capacity. With domestic consumption at only 48.0 GW, the system is exporting a net 36.2 GW, and the day-ahead price has fallen to −71.3 EUR/MWh, reflecting severe oversupply and limited absorption capacity in neighbouring markets. Thermal baseload remains online at modest levels — brown coal 2.5 GW, gas 1.9 GW, hard coal 0.6 GW — likely due to minimum-run constraints and ancillary service obligations rather than economic dispatch signals. Biomass at 4.3 GW and hydro at 1.0 GW continue their steady contributions, rounding out a generation stack that far exceeds domestic need.
Grid poem Claude AI
A hundred thousand blades carve the April wind into rivers of light no one can drink, while buried lignite smolders on like a habit the grid cannot yet break. The price falls through zero into negative space — electricity so abundant it begs to be taken away.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 42%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 40%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
40.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.4 GW
Solar
84.1 GW
Total generation
+36.2 GW
Net export
-71.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.9°C / 29 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 58.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
40
gCOâ‚‚/kWh
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Wind onshore 35.0 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across the entire right half and deep into the background, their rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the hazy horizon above a grey-green sea inlet at far right. Solar 33.4 GW fills the left-centre foreground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on low ground-mount racks, their surfaces reflecting diffuse grey-white light under total overcast. Biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall flue and wood-chip storage silos at left-centre. Brown coal 2.5 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising into the heavy sky, adjacent to a conveyor-fed lignite bunker. Natural gas 1.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer, positioned between the cooling towers and the biomass facility. Hydro 1.0 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with visible spillway foam in a stream in the lower-left corner. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a single modest smokestack behind the gas plant, barely visible. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a flat, luminous pearl-white canopy with no blue patches, casting soft shadowless midday daylight across the scene. The atmosphere feels calm and open despite the clouds, evoking the deeply negative electricity price. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green buds on deciduous trees, young grass, wildflowers beginning in meadows between turbine bases. Wind animates the scene — grass bent sideways, turbine blades in strong rotation, steam plumes sheared eastward. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into misty distance — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 5 April 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-05T09:20 UTC · Download image