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Grid Poet — 17 May 2026, 14:00
Solar at 33.7 GW under full overcast drives 90% renewable share and near-zero prices with 6.5 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 33.7 GW despite full cloud cover, benefiting from diffuse radiation and Germany's large installed PV capacity at midday in May. Combined with 9.3 GW of wind and 5.1 GW from biomass and hydro, the renewable share reaches 90%. The system is net exporting approximately 6.5 GW, consistent with the near-zero day-ahead price of 1.0 EUR/MWh, which signals oversupply into coupled European markets. Brown coal contributes 3.0 GW of baseload that remains online despite the low price, reflecting minimum stable generation constraints and contractual inflexibility typical of lignite units.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a pewter sky the panels drink what light the clouds allow, flooding the wires with silent abundance. The old coal towers exhale their last stubborn plumes into a world that has already turned away.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 63%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
9.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.7 GW
Solar
53.5 GW
Total generation
+6.5 GW
Net export
1.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.6°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 98.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
70
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 33.7 GW dominates the composition, filling the entire right two-thirds of the scene as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon across gentle green May hillsides. Wind onshore 7.2 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles on lattice towers set along a ridge in the centre-left middle ground, blades turning slowly in moderate wind. Wind offshore 2.1 GW is glimpsed as a distant cluster of turbines on the far-left horizon above a faint strip of grey sea. Brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising vertically in calm air, beside a conveyor belt carrying dark lignite. Biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a cylindrical silo and wood-chip stockpile just behind the cooling towers. Natural gas 1.9 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single slim exhaust stack and minimal exhaust, tucked between the biomass plant and the wind turbines. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a reservoir visible in a valley in the far centre background. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single small smokestack with a wisp of grey smoke near the lignite plant. Daytime at 14:00 in May: full diffuse daylight with no shadows, the entire sky a uniform blanket of bright white-grey overcast at 100% cloud cover, no sun disk visible. The atmosphere is calm and luminous — low-price tranquility. Temperature 14.6°C: lush spring-green grass, fresh beech and birch leaves, wildflowers in meadows around the solar arrays. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 17 May 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-17T12:20 UTC · Download image