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Grid Poet — 12 May 2026, 14:00
Solar at 31.6 GW and wind at 23.8 GW drive 88% renewables, yielding 8.2 GW net exports under overcast skies.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 on 12 May 2026, renewable generation reaches 88.4% of a 68.6 GW total, driven by 31.6 GW of solar under fully overcast skies — likely diffuse irradiance across widespread PV capacity — and a combined 23.8 GW of wind. Germany is a net exporter of approximately 8.2 GW, consistent with the low day-ahead price of 20.0 EUR/MWh reflecting comfortable oversupply. Thermal baseload remains modest: brown coal holds at 4.0 GW, hard coal at 1.5 GW, and gas at 2.4 GW, collectively providing a conventional floor and ancillary services while biomass and hydro contribute a steady 5.3 GW. The price signal suggests cross-border demand is absorbing excess generation without pushing into negative territory.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a pewter sky the turbines churn, a restless green armada drowning coal's smoldering embers in rivers of invisible light. The grid exhales its bounty westward, and the price falls soft as rain on foreign soil.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 46%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
23.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.6 GW
Solar
68.6 GW
Total generation
+8.2 GW
Net export
20.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.2°C / 24 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 78.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
82
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 31.6 GW dominates the centre and right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land, their surfaces reflecting pale diffuse light; wind onshore 21.1 GW fills the mid-ground and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in strong wind; wind offshore 2.7 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a faint strip of grey sea; brown coal 4.0 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; natural gas 2.4 GW sits left-centre as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and thin vapour trails; hard coal 1.5 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a single tall chimney beside a coal conveyor; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a rounded wood-chip silo and short stack releasing pale smoke at the left edge; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and weir visible in a river valley in the far distance. TIME AND LIGHT: early afternoon in May, full daylight but entirely overcast — the sky is a uniform blanket of dense grey-white stratus from horizon to zenith, no blue, no direct sun, soft shadowless illumination. The landscape is lush spring green — fresh beech and birch leaves, rapeseed fields not yet yellow, cool 9°C air suggested by a slight mist along the river. Wind is visible through bent grasses, spinning rotors, and streaming steam plumes leaning to the east. ATMOSPHERE: calm, open, expansive — low electricity price conveyed by a serene, unhurried quality to the light and space. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth married to Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid-line, every cooling tower's hyperbolic concrete curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 12 May 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-12T12:20 UTC · Download image