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Grid Poet — 14 May 2026, 14:00
Solar at 30.9 GW and wind at 11.8 GW drive 89% renewables, yielding 7.3 GW net export at near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 14:00 on 14 May 2026, solar generation leads the stack at 30.9 GW despite full cloud cover, with diffuse and intermittent direct radiation still driving substantial PV output. Combined with 11.8 GW of wind (onshore 10.0, offshore 1.8), biomass at 4.0 GW, and hydro at 1.5 GW, the renewable share reaches 89.1%. Thermal generation remains subdued—brown coal at 3.1 GW, natural gas at 2.0 GW, and hard coal at 0.8 GW provide baseload and ancillary services. With total generation at 54.2 GW against 46.9 GW consumption, Germany is a net exporter of approximately 7.3 GW, consistent with the day-ahead price collapsing to 4.6 EUR/MWh as surplus renewable output suppresses market clearing levels.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a leaden sky the sun still pours its silent bounty through the clouds, flooding panels and wires with more power than the nation can hold. The turbines hum a surplus hymn, and the grid exhales its excess toward every willing border.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 57%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
11.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.9 GW
Solar
54.2 GW
Total generation
+7.3 GW
Net export
4.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.1°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 473.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
76
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 30.9 GW dominates the composition, filling the entire right half and foreground with vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their glass surfaces reflecting pale white overcast light. Wind onshore 10.0 GW occupies the centre-left as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning at moderate speed in 13.7 km/h winds, receding into atmospheric haze. Wind offshore 1.8 GW appears as a thin line of turbines on the far-left horizon above a distant grey sea. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a cluster of modest industrial facilities with wood-chip storage domes and small steam stacks in the left-centre middle ground. Brown coal 3.1 GW sits at the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy steam plumes rising into the overcast. Natural gas 2.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack near the brown coal installation. Hard coal 0.8 GW is a small conventional plant with a single smokestack barely visible behind the CCGT. Hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir nestled in rolling green hills at the left edge. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover, yet full midday daylight at 14:00 Berlin time illuminates the scene evenly with soft, shadowless brightness—no direct sun disk visible but high ambient luminosity. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the 4.6 EUR/MWh price: no oppressive haze, just gentle spring air. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green deciduous trees and meadow grass at 11°C, no flowers yet fully bloomed. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting—rich colour palette of sage greens, pearl greys, steel blues, and warm ochres, with visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading distant elements into soft grey, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module busbar, and cooling tower shell. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 14 May 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-14T12:20 UTC · Download image