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Grid Poet — 13 May 2026, 13:00
Solar (29.7 GW) and onshore wind (18.0 GW) dominate under full overcast, with 3.1 GW net export and persistent thermal baseload.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 13:00 on a fully overcast May afternoon, renewables supply 82.6% of Germany's 62.0 GW load, led by solar at 29.7 GW—remarkably strong despite 100% cloud cover and only 92 W/m² direct radiation, indicating substantial diffuse irradiance across Germany's large installed PV base. Onshore wind contributes a solid 18.0 GW on moderate winds, while offshore output is negligible at 0.5 GW. Thermal generation remains notable: brown coal holds 5.0 GW of baseload, natural gas provides 3.4 GW, and hard coal adds 2.8 GW, together totaling 11.2 GW despite the high renewable share. Generation exceeds consumption by 3.1 GW, yielding a net export position, though the day-ahead price of 71.8 EUR/MWh remains moderately elevated—consistent with broader European price coupling and the persistence of thermal must-run commitments rather than any domestic scarcity signal.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a lidded sky of pewter grey, ten thousand silent panels drink the scattered light while turbine blades carve restless arcs through the damp spring air. The old coal towers still exhale their patient breath, anchoring an age that will not leave quietly.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 28%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 46%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 8%
83%
Renewable share
18.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
29.7 GW
Solar
65.1 GW
Total generation
+3.1 GW
Net export
71.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.1°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 92.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
122
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 29.7 GW dominates the foreground and right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling green spring farmland, their surfaces reflecting a diffuse silvery-white sky; onshore wind 18.0 GW fills the mid-ground across the centre and right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; brown coal 5.0 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of three massive hyperbolic cooling towers trailing thick white steam plumes into the overcast; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a medium-sized wood-chip power plant with a tall corrugated metal stack and log storage yards just left of centre; natural gas 3.4 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single gleaming exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, nestled between the coal plant and the wind turbines; hard coal 2.8 GW appears as a smaller coal station with a single rectangular cooling tower and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel; hydro 1.5 GW is depicted as a concrete dam and spillway visible in a distant valley on the far right; offshore wind 0.5 GW is barely suggested as a faint line of tiny turbines on a grey horizon. The sky is entirely covered by a thick, oppressive blanket of low stratiform cloud at 100% cover, uniformly pale grey-white with no blue patches, lit from above by the midday May sun that creates bright diffuse daylight but casts no shadows. The air feels heavy and damp at 11°C—spring vegetation is lush and green but muted in colour. The atmosphere conveys moderate price pressure through a slightly hazy, warm-toned heaviness to the overcast. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, dramatic industrial sublime—with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid pattern, cooling tower curvature, and gas-turbine exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 13 May 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-13T11:20 UTC · Download image