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Grid Poet — 9 May 2026, 15:00
Solar at 36.6 GW drives 75% of generation, pushing the day-ahead price to zero with 2.2 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 36.6 GW, accounting for 75% of total output despite 81% cloud cover—diffuse irradiance combined with 241 W/m² direct radiation still drives strong midday PV performance in May. Wind contributes a negligible 1.6 GW combined onshore and offshore, consistent with the near-calm 2.7 km/h surface winds. Brown coal at 2.7 GW and natural gas at 1.7 GW remain online as must-run or ramping reserves, alongside 4.0 GW biomass and 1.5 GW hydro providing baseload flexibility. Generation exceeds consumption by 2.2 GW, producing a net export condition at a day-ahead price of 0.0 EUR/MWh—a typical outcome when midday solar surplus saturates the market and cross-border flows absorb the excess.
Grid poem Claude AI
A pale sun presses its weight through veiled skies, and thirty-six billion watts pour silently from silicon fields into a grid that asks for nothing more. The price falls to zero—an empire of light, giving itself away.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 75%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
1.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.6 GW
Solar
48.7 GW
Total generation
+2.2 GW
Net export
0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.3°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
81.0% / 241.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
71
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 36.6 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition from centre to right, aluminium frames glinting under a hazy, mostly overcast sky with patches of diffuse sunlight filtering through layered clouds. Biomass 4.0 GW appears in the mid-left as a cluster of woody-fuel power plants with modest stacks emitting thin white exhaust, surrounded by timber storage yards. Brown coal 2.7 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy steam plumes rising into the grey-white cloud deck. Natural gas 1.7 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack between the brown coal and biomass installations. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a concrete weir and small run-of-river turbine house along a green-banked river in the foreground. Wind onshore 1.2 GW shows just two or three distant three-blade turbines on a ridge, rotors barely turning in the still air. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single small stack at the far edge of the industrial cluster. The time is 15:00 in May: full daylight but softened and diffused by 81% cloud cover—sky is a luminous pale grey-white with occasional breaks showing blue, the light even and shadowless. Temperature is a mild 17°C; vegetation is lush spring green—fresh beech leaves, blooming rapeseed fields in yellow patches between the solar arrays. The atmosphere is calm, serene, undramatic—matching a zero-euro price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower, and smokestack. The scene reads as a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 9 May 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-09T13:20 UTC · Download image