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Grid Poet — 27 May 2026, 15:00
Solar at 46.1 GW and wind at 11.7 GW drive 93.8% renewables, pushing 9.8 GW net exports and negative prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 46.1 GW, accounting for 68.5% of total generation under cloudless skies and strong direct irradiance of 694 W/m². Combined with 11.7 GW of wind and 5.4 GW from biomass and hydro, the renewable share reaches 93.8%. Generation exceeds consumption by 9.8 GW, yielding a net export position of approximately that magnitude, consistent with the slightly negative day-ahead price of −1.7 EUR/MWh. Thermal generation remains minimal, with brown coal at 2.2 GW likely providing must-run baseload and system inertia, while gas and hard coal are nearly fully displaced.
Grid poem Claude AI
A continent of glass drinks the zenith sun, pouring golden voltage past every border it can reach. The old furnaces idle in whispered lignite breath, their amber glow a footnote beneath the solar flood.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 69%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
11.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
46.1 GW
Solar
67.3 GW
Total generation
+9.8 GW
Net export
-1.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.1°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 694.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
43
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 46.1 GW dominates the composition, filling roughly two-thirds of the scene as a vast undulating plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching toward the horizon, their aluminium frames glinting under an intense midday sun at 15:00 with zero cloud cover and deep blue sky. Wind onshore 10.3 GW occupies the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their rotors turning moderately in a 15 km/h breeze across green late-May farmland. Wind offshore 1.4 GW appears as a small cluster of larger turbines visible on a distant hazy horizon line suggesting the North Sea. Brown coal 2.2 GW sits in the left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin, lazy steam plumes rising into the still air. Natural gas 1.6 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single slim exhaust stack beside the cooling towers, barely active. Biomass 3.6 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded storage dome and short chimney amid fields. Hydro 1.8 GW is suggested by a small reservoir dam nestled in gentle green hills at the far right. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a single dark stack structure, almost dormant, partially hidden behind trees. The atmosphere is calm and luminous — the negative price conveyed through expansive open sky, serene light, and a sense of overabundance. Lush green deciduous trees in full late-spring foliage frame the foreground at 23°C warmth. Wildflowers dot a grassy meadow in the immediate foreground. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective deepening toward blue-violet hills — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 27 May 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-27T13:20 UTC · Download image