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Grid Poet — 24 May 2026, 11:00
Solar at 46.4 GW drives 93.6% renewable share, pushing prices negative and enabling 11.6 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 46.4 GW, accounting for roughly 80% of total output during this late-morning hour with 475 W/m² direct irradiation and only 33% cloud cover. Wind contributes a modest 2.5 GW combined onshore and offshore, consistent with the light 9.4 km/h surface winds. With total generation at 58.1 GW against 46.5 GW consumption, Germany is a net exporter of approximately 11.6 GW, which has pushed the day-ahead price to -13.8 EUR/MWh — a typical outcome for a sunny late-spring weekend midday with high solar penetration. Dispatchable thermal generation has been largely curtailed, with gas at 1.5 GW and hard coal at just 0.3 GW, though brown coal remains at 1.9 GW reflecting its well-known inflexibility and must-run constraints.
Grid poem Claude AI
A golden flood pours from the zenith, drowning the grid in light so fierce the market begs generators to relent. The old lignite furnaces smolder on in stubborn refusal, while the price sinks below zero like a stone cast into a sun-bright river.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 80%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
2.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
46.4 GW
Solar
58.1 GW
Total generation
+11.6 GW
Net export
-13.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.7°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
33.0% / 475.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
44
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 46.4 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green hills and farmland, covering roughly four-fifths of the panoramic composition, their aluminium frames glinting under bright late-morning sun at 11:00 in late May. Wind onshore 2.1 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a distant ridgeline at the far right, blades turning lazily in light breeze. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad combined heat and power facility with a short smokestack and stored wood-chip piles in the mid-ground right. Brown coal 1.9 GW occupies a small section at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of steam rising, connected to a compact lignite plant. Natural gas 1.5 GW sits just beside it as a single CCGT unit with a slender exhaust stack. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam with cascading water visible in a valley at the far left edge. The sky is mostly clear with scattered cumulus clouds (33% cover), bright direct sunlight casting sharp shadows, a calm and serene atmosphere reflecting the negative electricity price. Late-spring vegetation is lush — bright green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers dotting meadows, warm 24°C air suggesting a pleasant day. The overall mood is peaceful abundance, light flooding the landscape. 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 depth and luminous sky — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV panel junction box, cooling tower parabolic profile, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 24 May 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-24T09:20 UTC · Download image