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Grid Poet — 11 May 2026, 14:00
Wind and diffuse solar dominate at 80% renewables, but full overcast and cool weather sustain thermal output and net imports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 on 11 May 2026, German renewables supply 46.0 GW (80.0% of generation), led by solar at 19.9 GW and combined wind at 20.7 GW, despite full overcast limiting direct irradiance to just 4 W/m². Solar output at this level under 100% cloud cover reflects the strong diffuse-radiation contribution of Germany's large installed PV fleet at midday in May. Thermal generation remains notable: brown coal holds a baseload position at 6.3 GW, with hard coal at 2.5 GW and gas at 2.8 GW, together providing 11.6 GW of dispatchable power. Domestic generation of 57.6 GW falls 2.6 GW short of the 60.2 GW consumption level, implying a net import of approximately 2.6 GW; the day-ahead price of 96 EUR/MWh is elevated for a spring afternoon, consistent with high residual load, cool temperatures sustaining heating demand, and the overcast conditions capping solar yield below its clear-sky potential.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden ceiling where no sun dares break, the turbines roar and lignite towers exhale their ancient breath across a restless land. The grid drinks deep from every well of power, yet still it thirsts — reaching beyond its borders for the missing light.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 34%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 11%
80%
Renewable share
20.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.9 GW
Solar
57.6 GW
Total generation
-2.6 GW
Net import
96.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.4°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 4.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
145
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 19.9 GW fills the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green May farmland, their surfaces reflecting only a dull pewter sheen under heavy overcast — no direct sunlight, no shadows. Wind onshore 17.6 GW dominates the right third as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind across gentle hills with fresh spring grass and budding hedgerows. Wind offshore 3.1 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a grey sea strip. Brown coal 6.3 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the low cloud ceiling. Hard coal 2.5 GW sits adjacent as a smaller coal plant with a rectangular chimney stack trailing grey smoke. Natural gas 2.8 GW appears as a compact modern CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and slim vapour trail, positioned between the coal complex and the PV fields. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a cluster of industrial biogas digesters with green domed tanks and a small steam vent beside a wood-chip storage yard, placed in the mid-ground among farm buildings. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a modest concrete run-of-river dam with white spillway water in a forested valley in the far left background. Time of day: early afternoon full daylight, but the sky is uniformly overcast at 100% cloud cover — a flat, heavy, oppressive grey-white ceiling with no blue visible anywhere, pressing down on the landscape. Temperature 8.4°C: the vegetation is fresh spring green but the air feels cool, with people in jackets visible near the biomass plant. The atmosphere is thick and slightly hazy, conveying the weight of a 96 EUR/MWh price — an oppressive, heavy, muted palette. Transmission lines on steel pylons cross the scene, symbolising the 2.6 GW net import flowing into the system. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich but subdued colour palette of slate greys, muted greens, and industrial ochres, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective receding into misty distance, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower curvature, every PV module edge. The painting conveys the sublime scale of industrial Germany harnessing both nature and combustion under an unyielding spring sky. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 11 May 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-11T12:20 UTC · Download image