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Grid Poet — 31 May 2026, 13:00
Solar at 37.7 GW drives a 3.0 GW net export at near-zero prices under full cloud cover.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 37.7 GW despite full cloud cover, benefiting from high diffuse and residual direct irradiance (433 W/m²) typical of thin overcast on a late-May midday. Wind contributes a modest 3.6 GW combined, while brown coal maintains a baseload of 3.1 GW and biomass adds 3.6 GW. The system produces 3.0 GW more than the 48.1 GW domestic consumption, resulting in a net export of approximately 3.0 GW, consistent with the day-ahead price settling at effectively zero. The 90.8% renewable share reflects a characteristic late-spring solar surplus pattern where marginal thermal units are largely displaced but lignite remains online due to ramp constraints.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a milk-white sky the panels drink what light the clouds permit, and still they flood the copper veins with more than any city needs. The old brown towers stand patient at the margin, breathing slow steam into a world that barely calls their name.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 74%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 6%
91%
Renewable share
3.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.7 GW
Solar
51.1 GW
Total generation
+3.0 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.8°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 433.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
66
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 37.7 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green late-spring meadows, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition. Biomass 3.6 GW appears as a cluster of small wood-chip power plants with modest stacks and wisps of pale exhaust at centre-left. Brown coal 3.1 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy steam plumes rising into the overcast. Wind onshore 3.5 GW is rendered as a scattered line of seven three-blade turbines on distant hilltops at right, rotors turning slowly in light wind. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small dam and spillway nestled in a forested valley at far right. Natural gas 1.4 GW shows as a single compact CCGT unit with a slim exhaust stack near the brown coal towers. The sky is fully overcast with a bright, luminous white-grey cloud layer at midday, diffuse light casting soft even shadows — no direct sun disk visible but the scene is brightly lit. Lush green vegetation, wildflowers in the meadows, late May warmth suggested by light foliage. The atmosphere is calm, open, serene — reflecting the near-zero 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 colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 31 May 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-31T11:20 UTC · Download image