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Grid Poet — 25 May 2026, 13:00
Solar at 50 GW under clear skies drives 15.5 GW net exports and deeply negative prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates this midday hour at 50.0 GW, representing 83% of total generation under cloudless skies and 701 W/m² direct irradiance. Wind contributes a modest 1.9 GW combined onshore and offshore, consistent with the near-calm 4.2 km/h surface winds. With total generation at 60.2 GW against 44.7 GW consumption, Germany is a net exporter of approximately 15.5 GW, driving the day-ahead price to -29.3 EUR/MWh — a characteristic outcome of uncurtailed solar peaks on warm late-spring weekends. Thermal baseload remains online at low levels (1.6 GW lignite, 1.5 GW gas, 0.3 GW hard coal), likely reflecting minimum-run constraints and ancillary service obligations rather than economic dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
A continent of glass ignites beneath a merciless sun, fifty billion watts cascading from silent rooftops into a grid that begs the world to drink. The price plunges below zero like a stone into still water, and the old coal towers stand idle, breathing faint ghosts of steam into the blazing air.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 83%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
1.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
50.0 GW
Solar
60.2 GW
Total generation
+15.4 GW
Net export
-29.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.0°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 701.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
38
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#2 Clean Hour #3 Helle Brise
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Solar 50.0 GW dominates the entire scene: vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretch across rolling central German farmland from foreground to mid-ground, their blue-black surfaces glinting sharply under an intense midday sun. Biomass 3.8 GW appears at mid-left as a cluster of modest wood-chip power plants with squat chimneys and biomass storage silos. Brown coal 1.6 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin wisps of pale steam against the sky. Natural gas 1.5 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack releasing a barely visible heat shimmer. Hydro 1.2 GW is rendered as a concrete dam with spillway visible in a river valley at the right background. Wind onshore 1.0 GW appears as two modest three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors nearly still in the calm air. Wind offshore 0.9 GW is suggested by a faint line of turbines on a hazy horizon. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a single small smokestack, nearly dormant, beside the lignite towers. The sky is completely cloudless, a deep cobalt blue washed with brilliant white light from a sun at its zenith. The air shimmers with 26°C late-May warmth; lush green deciduous trees with full canopies line field borders, wildflowers dot meadow edges in yellow and white. The atmosphere is calm, open, and serene, reflecting the deeply negative electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, panel junction box, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 25 May 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-25T11:20 UTC · Download image