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Grid Poet — 31 May 2026, 12:00
Solar at 37.8 GW under full overcast drives 90.7% renewables, yielding net export and near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 37.8 GW despite full cloud cover, reflecting the strength of diffuse irradiance on a late-May midday with long daylight hours—direct radiation is only 55 W/m², confirming thick overcast. Brown coal provides a 3.1 GW baseload contribution, with biomass at 3.7 GW and wind collectively at just 3.0 GW under near-calm conditions (5.4 km/h). Generation exceeds consumption by 1.7 GW, resulting in a modest net export, which alongside the 90.7% renewable share pushes the day-ahead price to effectively zero. Gas and hard coal are running at minimal levels, consistent with an oversupplied midday market requiring little thermal dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a sky sealed in pearl-grey silence, the sun's diffuse whisper still floods the land with invisible power. The grid exhales more than it breathes, and the price of lightning falls to nothing.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 74%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 6%
91%
Renewable share
3.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.8 GW
Solar
50.7 GW
Total generation
+1.7 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.0°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 55.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
67
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 37.8 GW dominates three-quarters of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling hills under a uniformly overcast white-grey sky at full midday brightness; biomass 3.7 GW appears as a cluster of modest wood-chip-fired power stations with short stacks and thin white exhaust plumes in the mid-ground left; brown coal 3.1 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with dense steam columns rising into the flat cloud ceiling; wind onshore 2.9 GW is represented by a scattered handful of three-blade turbines on lattice towers standing nearly motionless on a distant ridge right of centre; hydro 1.6 GW appears as a small dam and reservoir nestled in a wooded valley in the right background; natural gas 1.4 GW is a single compact CCGT plant with a slim exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer near the brown coal towers. The landscape is lush late-spring green—beech and oak in full leaf, wildflower meadows, temperature around 19°C lending soft warmth. The sky is entirely blanketed in smooth pearl-white stratus with no sun disk visible, yet the light is bright and even, casting almost no shadows. The atmosphere is calm, open, and tranquil, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous overcast light—but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 31 May 2026, 12:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-31T10:20 UTC · Download image