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Grid Poet — 14 May 2026, 11:00
Solar at 28.3 GW and wind at 12.8 GW drive 86% renewable share, enabling 3.7 GW net export at moderate prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Germany's grid at midday on 14 May 2026 is running at 86.1% renewable penetration, driven primarily by 28.3 GW of solar output despite 82% cloud cover — diffuse irradiance and 220 W/m² direct radiation are still sufficient to sustain strong PV performance across the fleet. Wind contributes a combined 12.8 GW (11.4 onshore, 1.4 offshore), providing a solid secondary renewable base. Thermal generation remains modest at 7.5 GW total, with brown coal at 3.8 GW likely reflecting inflexible baseload units, natural gas at 2.4 GW providing balancing capacity, and hard coal at 1.3 GW operating near minimum stable output. The negative residual load of −3.7 GW translates to a net export of 3.7 GW, consistent with a moderate day-ahead price of 35.60 EUR/MWh — not yet suppressed to near-zero levels, suggesting neighboring markets are absorbing the surplus comfortably.
Grid poem Claude AI
A veiled sun floods the plains with diffuse silver fire, turbines turning in patient arcs above fields of silicon glass. Beneath the bright abundance, old lignite towers exhale their final stubborn breath into an indifferent sky.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 52%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 7%
86%
Renewable share
12.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.3 GW
Solar
54.3 GW
Total generation
+3.7 GW
Net export
35.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.1°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
82.0% / 220.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
98
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 28.3 GW dominates the scene as vast crystalline silicon PV arrays stretching across the entire right half and center-right of the composition, aluminium-framed panels angled toward a hazy, cloud-filtered midday sky. Wind onshore 11.4 GW fills the upper-left and center-left as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind across rolling green spring meadows. Wind offshore 1.4 GW appears as a small cluster of turbines visible on a distant horizon line. Brown coal 3.8 GW occupies the far left as three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as mid-sized industrial facilities with cylindrical silos and modest exhaust stacks amid the landscape, positioned between the coal plant and the wind turbines. Natural gas 2.4 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, tucked behind the solar arrays. Hard coal 1.3 GW shows as a smaller power station with a rectangular boiler house and a single cooling tower with a thin steam wisp, near the brown coal complex. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir with churning white water in the foreground valley. The sky is 82% overcast — a bright but diffuse milky layer of alto-stratus clouds with patches of pale blue breaking through, full midday daylight at 11:00, shadows soft and muted. Temperature is cool spring at 10°C: fresh green foliage on birch and linden trees, wildflowers in meadow grass, everything lush but not yet full summer. The atmosphere is calm and unoppressive, reflecting a moderate electricity price — open, airy, spacious. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated greens and silvers, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, dramatic scale contrast between the immense industrial structures and the gentle pastoral terrain. Meticulous engineering detail on every technology: nacelle housings, blade pitch mechanisms, panel junction boxes, cooling tower reinforcement ribs, turbine exhaust cowlings. No text, no labels, no people prominently featured.
Grid data: 14 May 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-14T09:20 UTC · Download image