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Grid Poet — 31 May 2026, 14:00
Solar at 35.8 GW under overcast skies drives 90.7% renewable share, pushing prices to zero with 3.1 GW net export.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 35.8 GW despite full cloud cover, benefiting from high diffuse and partial direct irradiance (248 W/m²) typical of thin overcast in late May. Brown coal provides a 3.0 GW baseload floor, with biomass at 3.6 GW and negligible contributions from hard coal (0.2 GW) and offshore wind (0.1 GW). The system produces 3.1 GW of net export, consistent with the day-ahead price sitting at effectively zero, indicating ample supply across the Central European market. Wind onshore contributes a modest 4.2 GW despite reasonable surface wind speeds of nearly 20 km/h, suggesting unfavorable wind profiles at hub height or curtailment in congested zones.
Grid poem Claude AI
A white veil drawn across the zenith cannot smother the sun's insistence — thirty-six gigawatts pressed through cloud like light through frosted glass. The grid exhales its surplus into foreign wires, and the price of power falls to nothing, weightless as the overcast itself.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 72%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 6%
91%
Renewable share
4.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.8 GW
Solar
49.9 GW
Total generation
+3.1 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.4°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 248.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
67
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 35.8 GW dominates the scene: vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretch across the entire right two-thirds and centre of the composition, filling gentle rolling hills under bright but fully overcast white skies with diffuse midday light (14:00 Berlin time). Wind onshore 4.2 GW appears as a cluster of modern three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers along a ridgeline in the mid-ground right, blades turning in moderate wind. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a wood-chip-fed power station with a tall stack emitting thin white exhaust, positioned in the left-centre mid-ground. Brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy steam plumes rising into the white overcast, adjacent to a lignite conveyor and open pit mine. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway releasing white water in the far background left valley. Natural gas 1.4 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack, tucked behind the biomass facility. The sky is uniformly white-grey, 100% cloud cover, but luminous and bright — no blue sky, no sun disc, yet strong ambient illumination. Late-spring German landscape: lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers in meadow margins, 21°C warmth suggested by haze on distant fields. The atmosphere is calm and expansive, reflecting the zero-euro price — no oppressive weight, open and serene. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich visible brushwork, atmospheric depth, luminous overcast light reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 31 May 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-31T12:20 UTC · Download image