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Grid Poet — 24 May 2026, 12:00
Solar at 48 GW drives 13.6 GW net export and deeply negative prices on a warm May midday.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 48.0 GW, accounting for over 80% of total generation at midday under partly cloudy skies with strong direct irradiance of 553 W/m². With consumption at 46.0 GW and total generation at 59.6 GW, Germany is net exporting approximately 13.6 GW, consistent with the deeply negative day-ahead price of −37.6 EUR/MWh that reflects abundant supply across interconnected markets. Wind contributes a modest 3.0 GW combined, while thermal plants — brown coal at 1.6 GW, gas at 1.5 GW, and hard coal at 0.3 GW — remain online at minimum stable generation or for system services. The 94.3% renewable share is unremarkable for a sunny late-May midday but underscores how negative pricing increasingly characterizes these hours.
Grid poem Claude AI
A golden flood pours from crystalline fields, drowning the wires in light no market can contain. The old furnaces murmur low, stubborn embers refusing to be forgotten beneath the sun's imperial reign.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 81%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
3.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.0 GW
Solar
59.6 GW
Total generation
+13.6 GW
Net export
-37.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.6°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
55.0% / 553.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
38
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 48.0 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels covering rolling hillsides and farmland across the entire centre and right of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under strong midday sun; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a cluster of modest wood-chip power stations with short stacks and thin white exhaust plumes in the mid-ground left; wind onshore 2.6 GW is rendered as a scattered line of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on a distant ridge, blades turning slowly in light breeze; brown coal 1.6 GW occupies the far left background as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with gentle steam plumes rising against the sky; natural gas 1.5 GW sits beside the coal plant as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer; hydro 1.1 GW is depicted as a small concrete dam with spillway in a forested valley at the far right edge; wind offshore 0.4 GW is barely visible as tiny turbines on the distant hazy horizon line. The sky is midday bright with partial cloud cover — patches of cumulus drifting across a warm blue sky, direct sunlight casting crisp shadows across the panel arrays. Late-May central German landscape: lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, meadow grasses tall, wildflowers dotting field margins, temperature suggesting warm comfortable air. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and expansive — reflecting deeply negative electricity prices. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich colour palette, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, and meticulous engineering accuracy in every technology depicted. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 24 May 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-24T10:20 UTC · Download image