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Grid Poet — 24 May 2026, 15:00
Solar at 41 GW drives 12.9 GW net exports and negative prices on a warm May afternoon.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 41.1 GW despite 100% reported cloud cover, though 577 W/m² direct radiation suggests breaks or thin high cloud rather than true overcast—a common metadata discrepancy in spring. Total generation of 55.0 GW against 42.1 GW consumption yields a net export position of 12.9 GW, consistent with the negative day-ahead price of −23.5 EUR/MWh, which is incentivizing curtailment and cross-border flows. Thermal generation remains minimal: brown coal at 1.6 GW and gas at 1.4 GW are likely operating on must-run constraints or ancillary service obligations, while hard coal at 0.3 GW is negligible. The 94% renewable share is high but unremarkable for a sunny May afternoon; wind contribution is modest at 5.5 GW combined onshore and offshore, reflecting the light 12 km/h winds.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun pours gold beyond what any city can drink, and the grid, glutted and generous, pays its neighbors to take the light away. Turbines turn lazily in the warm breeze while cooling towers exhale their last thin breath into a sky already conquered.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 75%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
5.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.1 GW
Solar
55.0 GW
Total generation
+12.8 GW
Net export
-23.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.6°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 577.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
40
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 41.1 GW dominates the scene as an enormous field of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames gleaming under bright afternoon light; wind onshore 5.1 GW appears as a cluster of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on gentle green hills at the right edge, blades turning slowly; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip power station with a low rectangular building and single smokestack emitting faint white exhaust in the middle distance; brown coal 1.6 GW shows a pair of smaller hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of steam rising, placed far left; natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a polished exhaust stack beside the cooling towers; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small weir and turbine house along a river flowing through the foreground. Time is 15:00 in late May: full, bright daylight with a high sun, the sky a hazy white-blue suggesting thin high cloud but strong radiation penetrating through, warm golden tones across the landscape. Temperature 26.6°C: lush late-spring vegetation, full green canopy on deciduous trees, wildflowers in meadow grasses, heat shimmer above the dark PV panels. Light wind bends the tall grass gently. The negative electricity price is reflected in an open, calm, expansive sky with no oppressive weight. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting—rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to soft blue-green hills on the horizon, the luminous quality of Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism. Meticulous engineering accuracy on all technology: visible panel cell grids, turbine nacelle housings, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT heat recovery units. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 24 May 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-24T13:20 UTC · Download image