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Grid Poet — 10 May 2026, 11:00
Solar at 41.5 GW drives 92% renewable share and 7.1 GW net export, pushing prices slightly negative.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 41.5 GW despite 93% cloud cover, which is consistent with the high direct irradiance reading of 389 W/m² indicating broken or thin cloud layers allowing substantial beam radiation through. Wind contributes only 5.0 GW combined, reflecting the near-calm conditions at 1.1 km/h. Conventional thermal generation remains modest: brown coal at 2.4 GW provides baseload, gas at 1.7 GW offers marginal flexibility, and hard coal is nearly offline at 0.4 GW. With generation exceeding consumption by 7.1 GW, Germany is a net exporter of 7.1 GW to neighboring markets, pushing the day-ahead price to -0.7 EUR/MWh — a slight negative price typical of midday solar oversupply events in spring.
Grid poem Claude AI
A pale sun floods the plains with invisible gold, drowning the wires in light no one asked to hold. The towers of lignite breathe faintly, relics standing watch while the grid bleeds power outward into foreign soil.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 74%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
5.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.5 GW
Solar
56.4 GW
Total generation
+7.1 GW
Net export
-0.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.2°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
93.0% / 389.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
54
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 41.5 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly three-quarters of the canvas, covering rolling green spring hills under a bright but heavily overcast sky with thin high clouds allowing diffused white light to pour through. Wind onshore 2.2 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on a distant ridge to the right, rotors barely turning in still air. Wind offshore 2.8 GW is suggested by a faint line of turbines on a hazy northern horizon above a sliver of grey sea. Biomass 4.2 GW occupies the mid-left as a modest wood-clad biogas facility with a rounded green fermenter dome and a thin wisp of exhaust. Brown coal 2.4 GW sits in the far left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising vertically in the windless air. Natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a compact single-stack CCGT plant with a slender silver exhaust tower beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam with spillway visible in a valley at the far right edge. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a single dark stack barely visible behind the biomass plant, nearly cold, with no visible plume. The time is 11:00 on a May morning: full diffused daylight, soft white sky with layered grey clouds, spring-green meadows and budding deciduous trees at 16°C. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the slightly negative electricity price — no oppressive mood, just quiet luminous stillness. 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 with sfumato haze in the distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 10 May 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-10T09:20 UTC · Download image