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Grid Poet — 26 May 2026, 10:00
Solar at 46 GW under clear skies drives 88% renewable share, suppressing prices to 6.50 EUR/MWh with net exports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates the German grid at 46.0 GW under cloudless skies, representing 71.2% of total generation alone. Wind contributes modestly at 5.2 GW combined, consistent with the near-calm 0.4 km/h surface wind reading. Baseload thermal generation remains online with brown coal at 4.1 GW, natural gas at 2.5 GW, and hard coal at 1.2 GW, likely reflecting minimum-run obligations and ancillary service commitments. The system is in net export of approximately 3.9 GW, and the day-ahead price of 6.50 EUR/MWh reflects the oversupply condition typical of a late-May solar peak with moderate demand.
Grid poem Claude AI
A flood of golden fire pours from a cloudless vault, drowning the turbines in stillness and pressing the price of power to nearly nothing. The old coal towers stand half-idle, their plumes thinned to whispers, as the sun alone commands the grid.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 71%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
5.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
46.0 GW
Solar
64.6 GW
Total generation
+4.0 GW
Net export
6.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.7°C / 0 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 399.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
85
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 46.0 GW dominates the scene as a vast plain of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, their aluminium frames glinting intensely under direct sunlight, covering roughly 71% of the visual composition. Brown coal 4.1 GW appears at the left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin, wispy steam plumes rising lazily in the still air. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fed power station with a squat smokestack beside stacked timber, just left of centre. Wind offshore 3.3 GW shows as a distant line of three-blade turbines on the far horizon over a sliver of sea, their rotors barely turning. Natural gas 2.5 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single polished exhaust stack and minimal exhaust, positioned right of the coal towers. Wind onshore 1.9 GW appears as a small cluster of lattice-towered three-blade turbines on a gentle hill to the right, blades nearly motionless. Hydro 1.6 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway visible in a valley at the far right. Hard coal 1.2 GW is a single older brick power station with a short chimney releasing faint haze, tucked behind the gas plant. The time is 10:00 AM in late May: full, high-angle daylight with a perfectly clear, deep blue sky and zero clouds. The air is warm and still — lush green deciduous trees in full leaf frame the edges, meadow grasses shimmer. The atmosphere is calm and luminous, matching a very low electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading toward a hazy blue horizon — yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: nacelle housings, panel cell grids, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT heat-recovery housings. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 26 May 2026, 10:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-26T08:20 UTC · Download image