🎉 Grid Poet just got an upgrade! Faster data, better charts. Welcome to the new version. 🌱⚡
Grid Poet — 27 May 2026, 12:00
Solar at 52.7 GW drives 93.9% renewable share, yielding 9.0 GW net export and a negative price.
Back
Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 52.7 GW under cloudless skies and strong direct irradiance of 646 W/m², accounting for roughly 75% of total output. Combined with 8.1 GW of wind and 5.4 GW from biomass and hydro, the renewable share reaches 93.9%. Generation exceeds consumption by 9.0 GW, resulting in net exports of approximately that magnitude and pushing the day-ahead price to −1.1 EUR/MWh. Thermal plants remain online at minimal levels — 2.2 GW brown coal, 1.6 GW gas, and 0.5 GW hard coal — likely operating at must-run constraints or providing inertia and reserves.
Grid poem Claude AI
A tide of light floods the plain at noon, drowning every shadow in gold so fierce that turbines stand as quiet witnesses and the grid, overfull, pays the world to drink. Even the old coal towers, still breathing their grey breath, bow before a sun that has made the price of power less than nothing.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 75%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
8.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
52.7 GW
Solar
70.6 GW
Total generation
+9.0 GW
Net export
-1.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.1°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 646.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
42
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 52.7 GW dominates the scene as a vast, sweeping expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green farmland, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under intense midday sun. Wind onshore 6.7 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on gentle hills in the middle distance, blades turning slowly in moderate breeze. Wind offshore 1.4 GW is suggested by a small cluster of turbines visible on a hazy horizon far beyond a river. Biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a compact wood-chip power station with a modest stack and stored timber nearby, tucked to the right. Hydro 1.7 GW appears as a small weir and run-of-river powerhouse along the river in the mid-ground. Brown coal 2.2 GW occupies a narrow strip at the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of steam rising gently. Natural gas 1.6 GW sits beside them as a single compact CCGT unit with a slender exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a barely visible small conventional plant with a single smokestack in the far-left background. The sky is completely clear, deep cerulean blue, zero clouds, blazing direct sunlight casting sharp shadows; the atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the negative electricity price. Late-May vegetation is lush — bright green fields, wildflowers, mature deciduous trees in full leaf. Temperature is warm, 21°C, with a soft haze of heat rising from the panels. Time is precisely solar noon in central Germany: shadows are short, light is white-gold and overhead. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — with rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective into the distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 27 May 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-27T10:20 UTC · Download image