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Grid Poet — 14 May 2026, 12:00
Solar at 30.7 GW and wind at 12.5 GW drive 88.5% renewable share, producing 5.0 GW net export at midday.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midday on 14 May, German generation reaches 55.0 GW against 50.0 GW consumption, yielding a net export of 5.0 GW. Solar dominates at 30.7 GW despite 89% cloud cover, indicating extensive diffuse irradiance across Germany's large installed PV base, supplemented by 12.5 GW of combined onshore and offshore wind. Thermal generation remains modest with 3.2 GW brown coal providing baseload, 2.0 GW natural gas, and 1.1 GW hard coal — consistent with suppressed dispatch economics at a day-ahead price of 16.1 EUR/MWh. The 88.5% renewable share is characteristic of a mild spring midday with moderate wind and widespread, if overcast, solar conditions.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a pewter sky the silicon fields drink every scattered photon, their quiet harvest flooding the wires with more than the nation can hold. The old coal towers exhale thin ghosts, their reign shrinking hour by hour against the grey and luminous tide.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 56%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
12.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.7 GW
Solar
55.0 GW
Total generation
+5.0 GW
Net export
16.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.3°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
89.0% / 198.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
80
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 30.7 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire right half and centre-right of the composition, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting diffuse light under heavy overcast; wind onshore 11.0 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles arrayed across rolling green hills in the centre-left middle distance, blades turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 1.5 GW is glimpsed as a small cluster of turbines on a hazy horizon line at far left; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip power station with a rectangular stack and thin white exhaust plume nestled among spring trees at left-centre; brown coal 3.2 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin wisps of steam, attached to an industrial lignite plant with conveyor belts; natural gas 2.0 GW sits as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal exhaust, positioned between the cooling towers and the biomass plant; hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir in a valley at far left; hard coal 1.1 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular chimney and slight grey plume beside the brown coal facility. The sky is a uniform 89% overcast — thick layered stratus clouds in silver-grey and cream tones, yet with enough diffuse brightness to illuminate the landscape fully at noon, casting soft shadowless light. The air temperature is cool at 10°C; spring vegetation is fresh bright green, birches and beeches in new leaf, meadow grasses swaying in the 17 km/h breeze. The low electricity price creates a calm, spacious, unhurried atmosphere with open pastoral feeling. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth receding into mist at the horizon — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic profile. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 14 May 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-14T10:20 UTC · Download image