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Grid Poet — 11 May 2026, 12:00
Overcast midday: 21 GW diffuse solar and 15 GW wind supply 76% renewables, but 7.9 GW net imports fill the gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midday on 11 May 2026, Germany's renewable share reaches 76.0% despite fully overcast skies eliminating all direct solar irradiance — the 21.1 GW of solar output is driven entirely by diffuse radiation, a respectable figure under 100% cloud cover. Wind contributes a combined 15.4 GW (12.4 onshore, 3.0 offshore), supported by moderate 19.4 km/h winds. Domestic generation of 55.3 GW falls short of the 63.2 GW demand, requiring approximately 7.9 GW of net imports, which aligns with the residual load figure and helps explain the elevated day-ahead price of 105.5 EUR/MWh. Brown coal remains the largest single thermal contributor at 7.1 GW, with hard coal at 3.2 GW and gas at 3.0 GW providing additional baseload and mid-merit support — a conventional dispatch pattern for a spring day with moderate but insufficient renewable output.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky the turbines turn their iron hymns, while coal towers exhale white columns into a ceiling that refuses to break. The grid stretches its arms across borders, drawing power from distant lands to feed a nation caught between old fire and new wind.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 38%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 13%
76%
Renewable share
15.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.1 GW
Solar
55.3 GW
Total generation
-7.9 GW
Net import
105.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.1°C / 19 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
175
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 7.1 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky, surrounded by lignite conveyor belts and open-pit mine scars in dark earth. Hard coal 3.2 GW appears just to the right as a smaller coal-fired station with rectangular chimneys and thin grey smoke. Natural gas 3.0 GW sits as a compact modern CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and subtle heat shimmer near centre-left. Solar 21.1 GW fills the broad centre and right-centre as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land — panels reflect only the dull grey-white of the overcast sky, no direct sunlight, no glare, no shadows. Wind onshore 12.4 GW spans the right third as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind, scattered across rolling green spring hills with fresh but cool vegetation — grass bright green, scattered wildflowers, bare patches on some trees suggesting early-May growth at 8°C. Wind offshore 3.0 GW appears on the far-right horizon as a row of turbines standing in a grey, choppy North Sea glimpsed between land features. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with wood-chip storage silos and a low smokestack with pale exhaust, tucked between the coal complex and the solar fields. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with white water cascading, positioned in a stream in the foreground valley. Sky is entirely overcast with a uniform heavy grey cloud layer at midday — full diffuse daylight, bright but shadowless, no sun disc visible. The atmosphere is thick, slightly oppressive, reflecting the 105.5 EUR/MWh price tension. Cool spring air suggested by mist in low-lying areas and dew on panel surfaces. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich colour palette of steel greys, moss greens, coal blacks, and ivory steam, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with distant features fading into haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on all technology components. No text, no labels, no human figures.
Grid data: 11 May 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-11T10:20 UTC · Download image