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Grid Poet — 17 May 2026, 09:00
Solar at 31.4 GW drives 87% renewable share and 3.3 GW net export at a low 19 EUR/MWh price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 31.4 GW, contributing 61% of total output on a largely clear late-spring morning with 290 W/m² direct irradiance and only 26% cloud cover. Wind provides a combined 7.3 GW (onshore 4.4 GW, offshore 2.9 GW) in moderate conditions, while baseload thermal units — brown coal at 3.3 GW, natural gas at 2.3 GW, and hard coal at 1.0 GW — remain online at low dispatch levels. With generation exceeding consumption by 3.3 GW, Germany is in a net export position, consistent with the low day-ahead price of 19.0 EUR/MWh that reflects comfortable renewable oversupply across the interconnected Central European market. The 87% renewable share is characteristic of a well-irradiated weekend or holiday morning with moderate demand of 47.8 GW.
Grid poem Claude AI
A tide of golden photons floods the Saxon plain, drowning coal's low ember in a river of captured light. The grid exhales its surplus westward, and the price bows low before the sun's indifferent reign.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 61%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
87%
Renewable share
7.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.4 GW
Solar
51.1 GW
Total generation
+3.3 GW
Net export
19.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.1°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
26.0% / 290.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
90
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 31.4 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels covering the right two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames catching bright mid-morning sunlight under a mostly clear sky with scattered cumulus clouds at 26% cover. Wind onshore 4.4 GW appears as a cluster of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on gentle green hills in the centre-left middle ground, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 2.9 GW is suggested by a line of larger turbines visible on a hazy horizon beyond a distant estuary. Brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin wisps of steam rising into the spring air, connected to a blocky powerhouse with conveyor belts carrying lignite. Biomass 4.5 GW appears as a modest timber-clad combined heat-and-power plant with a cylindrical silo and a single stack emitting faint white exhaust, positioned left of centre. Natural gas 2.3 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a streamlined turbine hall, tucked behind the biomass plant. Hard coal 1.0 GW is a small conventional power station with a rectangular boiler house and a single squat chimney producing barely visible flue gas, at the far left edge. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a weir and small run-of-river powerhouse along a river winding through the foreground. The lighting is full May morning daylight at 09:00, sun from the east-southeast casting long soft shadows across spring-green meadows with wildflowers and fresh deciduous foliage at roughly 9°C — cool enough that figures would wear light jackets. The atmosphere is calm, open, and luminous, reflecting the low electricity price. 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 confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with hazy blue distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, and cooling tower surface. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 17 May 2026, 09:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-17T07:20 UTC · Download image