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Grid Poet — 30 May 2026, 13:00
Solar at 45.6 GW drives 93% renewable share, pushing prices negative with 16 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 45.6 GW under near-cloudless skies and strong direct irradiation of 698 W/m², accounting for roughly 70% of total output. Combined with 9.2 GW of wind and 5.4 GW of hydro and biomass, renewables reach 92.8% of generation. Total generation of 64.8 GW exceeds consumption of 48.8 GW, producing a net export of 16.0 GW and pushing the day-ahead price to −1.4 EUR/MWh. Brown coal remains online at 3.0 GW, likely reflecting must-run constraints or minimum stable generation commitments, while gas and hard coal together contribute only 1.6 GW, indicating thermal plant dispatch has been squeezed to near-minimum levels by the renewable oversupply.
Grid poem Claude AI
A golden tide of photons floods the land, drowning the price beneath its radiant hand. The turbines whisper while the old furnaces stand mute, their fires made strangers in this solar absolute.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 70%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 5%
93%
Renewable share
9.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
45.6 GW
Solar
64.8 GW
Total generation
+16.0 GW
Net export
-1.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.1°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
15.0% / 698.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
52
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 45.6 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green hills and farmland, occupying roughly two-thirds of the composition, glinting intensely under a brilliant midday sun in a nearly cloudless pale-blue sky with only faint wisps of cirrus at 15% cover. Wind onshore 8.0 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on gentle ridgelines in the mid-ground, their blades turning slowly in the light 4.3 km/h breeze. Wind offshore 1.2 GW is visible as a small cluster of offshore turbines on a hazy horizon line beyond a river estuary at the far right. Biomass 3.7 GW is represented by two modest industrial facilities with timber-clad facades and low stacks releasing thin white vapour, nestled among the solar arrays. Hydro 1.7 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river dam with spillway and powerhouse on a broad river in the middle distance. Brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the far left background as two large hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting lazy steam plumes, with a conveyor belt of dark lignite visible. Natural gas 1.4 GW is a single compact CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack and minimal exhaust, nearly idle, beside the cooling towers. Hard coal 0.2 GW is a barely visible small stack behind the gas plant, almost dormant. Late-spring vegetation is lush — bright green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflower meadows, warm 23°C atmosphere with soft heat shimmer. The sky is open, calm, luminous — reflecting the negative electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to a hazy blue horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 30 May 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-30T11:20 UTC · Download image