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Grid Poet — 14 May 2026, 15:00
Solar at 28.9 GW leads a high-renewables afternoon with 5.2 GW net export and depressed prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 15:00 on a partly cloudy May afternoon, solar generation dominates the German grid at 28.9 GW, complemented by 11.2 GW of combined onshore and offshore wind, yielding a renewable share of 88.5%. Total generation of 51.5 GW exceeds domestic consumption of 46.3 GW, resulting in a net export of approximately 5.2 GW. The day-ahead price of 17.8 EUR/MWh reflects the abundant renewable supply pressing conventional generation to minimal levels, with gas at 2.0 GW and hard coal at just 0.8 GW. Brown coal remains online at 3.1 GW, consistent with its typical baseload inflexibility and contractual obligations rather than any scarcity signal.
Grid poem Claude AI
A river of photons pours across the land, drowning the old furnaces in golden silence. The turbines hum a lullaby of surplus, and the grid exhales its excess to distant shores.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 56%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
11.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.9 GW
Solar
51.5 GW
Total generation
+5.2 GW
Net export
17.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.7°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
35.0% / 226.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
80
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 28.9 GW dominates the scene, filling the entire right half and centre-right with vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green hills, angled toward a bright afternoon sun breaking through scattered cumulus clouds covering roughly a third of the sky. Wind onshore 9.2 GW occupies the centre-left as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind across spring meadows with fresh green grass and wildflowers. Wind offshore 2.0 GW appears in the far background left as a line of turbines standing in a hazy sea visible on the distant horizon. Brown coal 3.1 GW sits in the far left as a cluster of two hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thin white steam plumes, beside a conveyor belt and lignite stockpile. Natural gas 2.0 GW is represented by a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a modest heat shimmer, positioned just left of centre behind the wind turbines. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded silo and a short smokestack emitting faint vapour, nestled among trees to the left of the solar arrays. Hydro 1.5 GW is a small dam with water cascading over a spillway in the lower-left foreground beside a river. Hard coal 0.8 GW is a small, partially idle power station with a single square chimney barely trailing smoke, tucked behind the brown coal towers. The lighting is full mid-afternoon daylight at 15:00 in May — warm, bright, with soft shadows from broken cloud cover casting shifting patches on the landscape. The sky is mostly blue with 35% cumulus clouds, temperature around 12°C lending a fresh spring atmosphere with cool-toned greens. The low electricity price is reflected in an open, calm, expansive sky with no oppressive haze. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with haze at the horizon, dramatic depth from foreground river to distant sea. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor geometry, nacelle housings, PV cell grid patterns, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower curvature, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels, no people in the foreground.
Grid data: 14 May 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-14T13:20 UTC · Download image