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Grid Poet — 28 May 2026, 13:00
Solar at 54.9 GW drives 92% renewable share, pushing prices to zero and enabling 8.4 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 54.9 GW under cloudless skies and strong direct irradiance of 739 W/m², accounting for 82% of total generation alone. Wind contributes a negligible 1.0 GW combined, consistent with the light 7.5 km/h surface winds. Conventional thermal generation remains at reduced but nonzero levels: brown coal at 2.9 GW and natural gas at 1.8 GW reflect minimum stable operation and contractual obligations rather than market demand. With consumption at 58.4 GW against 66.8 GW of domestic generation, Germany is a net exporter of approximately 8.4 GW, and the day-ahead price has dropped to effectively zero, typical for midday solar surplus hours in late May.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun has seized the grid with sovereign fire, flooding every circuit until the price itself surrenders to nothing. Beneath that merciless noon, coal towers idle like old sentinels, their breath thin wisps against an empire of light.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 82%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
1.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
54.9 GW
Solar
66.8 GW
Total generation
+8.4 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.8°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 739.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
56
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 54.9 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly four-fifths of the composition, their aluminium frames gleaming under intense midday sun. Brown coal 2.9 GW appears at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin, wispy steam plumes rising lazily. Biomass 3.7 GW sits as a modest wood-clad biomass plant with a short stack and small steam output just left of centre. Hydro 1.9 GW is represented by a concrete run-of-river weir and small powerhouse along a river in the middle distance. Natural gas 1.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack emitting faint heat shimmer, positioned right of the coal towers. Hard coal 0.7 GW is a single smaller stack among the thermal cluster, barely operating. Wind onshore 0.7 GW and wind offshore 0.3 GW appear as a handful of three-blade turbines on the distant horizon, rotors nearly still in the calm air. The sky is completely cloudless, an expansive luminous blue, with the sun at its zenith casting short, crisp shadows. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting a near-zero electricity price. Late-May vegetation is lush — bright green wheat fields, blooming rapeseed in yellow patches, deciduous trees in full leaf. Temperature around 21°C gives a warm, pleasant haze in the distance. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — yet every engineering element is rendered with meticulous technical accuracy: nacelle housings, lattice towers, panel wiring, cooling tower reinforcement ribs. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 28 May 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-28T11:20 UTC · Download image