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Grid Poet — 6 April 2026, 11:00
Solar at 41.2 GW and wind at 23.5 GW drive 23.7 GW net export and deeply negative prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 11:00 on a spring Sunday morning, solar dominates the German grid at 41.2 GW, complemented by 23.5 GW of combined onshore and offshore wind, yielding a renewable share of 93.4%. Total generation of 74.9 GW against consumption of 51.2 GW produces a net export position of 23.7 GW, driving the day-ahead price to −59.8 EUR/MWh — a deeply negative clearing price reflecting the difficulty of absorbing or evacuating surplus renewable output at this hour. Thermal baseload remains online at modest levels — brown coal at 2.1 GW, natural gas at 1.9 GW, hard coal at 1.0 GW — likely constrained by minimum run obligations and ancillary service commitments. Biomass contributes a steady 4.3 GW and hydro 1.0 GW, rounding out a generation mix that leaves fossil plant running at minimum technical thresholds.
Grid poem Claude AI
A river of light pours from a sky barely clouded, drowning the wires in gold no market can hold. The turbines turn on, indifferent to the price the sun has already paid.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 25%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 55%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
93%
Renewable share
23.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.2 GW
Solar
74.9 GW
Total generation
+23.7 GW
Net export
-59.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.9°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
25.0% / 396.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
45
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 41.2 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, their aluminium frames glinting under bright late-morning spring sunshine, occupying roughly 55% of the composition. Wind onshore 19.0 GW fills the right third of the background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind, scattered across green rolling hills with early spring vegetation. Wind offshore 4.5 GW appears at the far right horizon as a cluster of offshore turbines rising from a distant strip of grey-blue sea. Biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a rectangular boiler building and a modest smokestack emitting thin white vapour, placed in the centre-left middle ground. Brown coal 2.1 GW stands as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with gentle steam plumes on the far left, small relative to the solar field. Natural gas 1.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single slim exhaust stack beside the cooling towers. Hard coal 1.0 GW is a small conventional stack barely visible behind the lignite plant. Hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir tucked into a valley at the left edge. The sky is 75% clear with scattered cumulus clouds, high spring sun at roughly 50° elevation casting crisp shadows, bright and calm atmosphere conveying extremely low electricity prices. The landscape is early-spring central German terrain — pale green meadows, bare deciduous trees just budding, patches of rapeseed. Temperature near 10°C suggested by cool-toned shadows and a faint haze on distant ridges. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — rich luminous colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell row, every cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 6 April 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-06T09:20 UTC · Download image