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Grid Poet — 5 April 2026, 14:00
Wind (39.1 GW) and solar (32.5 GW) drive 37.1 GW net exports and deeply negative prices at −98.7 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 on 5 April 2026, German generation reaches 81.5 GW against consumption of only 44.4 GW, producing a net export position of 37.1 GW — an exceptionally large volume that will be pressing hard on interconnector capacities to neighbouring markets. Wind contributes 39.1 GW combined (33.3 GW onshore, 5.8 GW offshore) while solar delivers 32.5 GW despite full cloud cover, benefiting from high diffuse irradiance across extensive installed capacity. The day-ahead price of −98.7 EUR/MWh reflects the severity of the oversupply: dispatchable thermal generation has already been curtailed to near-minimum levels (gas at 1.9 GW, hard coal at 0.5 GW, lignite at 2.4 GW), yet the system remains deeply long. Renewable curtailment and further negative price deepening are likely if cross-border flows cannot absorb the excess.
Grid poem Claude AI
The turbines roar and the panels drink what dim light the clouds allow, flooding the grid with more than it can hold — a river without banks. Beneath a price turned inside out, the old coal furnaces bank their fires and wait, humbled by the abundance of wind and sky.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 41%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 40%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
39.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.5 GW
Solar
81.5 GW
Total generation
+37.1 GW
Net export
-98.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.0°C / 30 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 56.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
40
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#3 Export Champion
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Wind onshore 33.3 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green spring hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind; wind offshore 5.8 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on the hazy horizon above a grey North Sea sliver at far right. Solar 32.5 GW fills the left-centre foreground and midground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled on metal racks, their glass surfaces reflecting flat grey overcast light. Biomass 4.0 GW is a modest wood-clad power plant with a steaming stack and wood-chip conveyors at the left edge. Brown coal 2.4 GW appears as a single hyperbolic cooling tower with a thin wisp of steam rising, partially idle, in the left background behind the biomass plant. Natural gas 1.9 GW sits as a compact CCGT block with a single slim exhaust stack producing minimal vapour, tucked between the cooling tower and the solar fields. Hydro 1.0 GW is a small concrete dam and penstock visible in a wooded valley at the far left. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a barely visible dark brick stack with almost no emission plume, nearly lost behind the lignite tower. The sky is full overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform blanket of pearl-grey and silver stratus under bright midday daylight at 14:00, diffuse and shadowless, with no sun disk visible. The atmosphere feels calm and open despite the clouds, reflecting deeply negative prices — spacious, tranquil, almost weightless. Spring vegetation at 16°C: fresh bright-green grass, early leaf buds on birch and beech trees, wildflowers beginning in meadow edges. Wind animates the scene: grass bends, tree branches sway, turbine blades blur at their tips. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth receding into misty grey distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 5 April 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-05T12:20 UTC · Download image