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Grid Poet — 28 May 2026, 15:00
Solar at 49.1 GW under clear skies drives 91.7% renewable share and near-zero prices on a warm May afternoon.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates this mid-afternoon snapshot at 49.1 GW under cloudless skies and 730 W/m² direct radiation, constituting roughly 80% of total generation and driving the renewable share to 91.7%. With generation at 61.2 GW against 56.0 GW consumption, Germany is a net exporter of approximately 5.2 GW. The day-ahead price of €1.3/MWh reflects the characteristic solar midday trough, with near-zero marginal cost renewables suppressing clearing prices to levels that barely cover variable costs for thermal plants. Brown coal at 2.9 GW and natural gas at 1.7 GW remain online at minimum stable generation, while wind contributes a modest 1.5 GW combined amid light 9.7 km/h surface winds — a textbook late-May solar peak scenario.
Grid poem Claude AI
A golden tide pours from the naked sky, drowning the grid in light so cheap it is nearly free. The old coal towers exhale their thin, defiant breath against an empire of glass and photons.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 80%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
92%
Renewable share
1.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
49.1 GW
Solar
61.2 GW
Total generation
+5.2 GW
Net export
1.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.6°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 730.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
58
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 49.1 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green hills, occupying roughly 80% of the canvas, blazing under full 15:00 afternoon sun. Brown coal 2.9 GW appears as a cluster of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers on the far left horizon, releasing thin wisps of white steam. Biomass 3.7 GW is represented as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage yard and a modest smokestack to the left of centre. Hydro 1.9 GW shows as a stone-walled dam with spillway cascading water in the middle distance. Natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal visible exhaust, placed near the coal plant. Wind onshore 1.1 GW is depicted as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in light wind. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is just visible as tiny turbines on the far-right horizon above a sliver of sea. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single small conventional power station with a squat chimney, nearly hidden behind the solar expanse. The sky is completely clear, deep cobalt blue with no clouds whatsoever, the late-spring sun high and warm. The landscape is lush late-May central German countryside — bright green deciduous trees in full leaf, meadow grasses, wildflowers. The atmosphere is calm, luminous, open and serene, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into hazy blue distance — yet every energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: nacelle housings, lattice tower structures, panel wiring, cooling tower parabolic geometry. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 28 May 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-28T13:20 UTC · Download image