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Grid Poet — 25 April 2026, 13:00
Record solar at 50.3 GW under clear skies drives 19.5 GW net export and deeply negative prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 50.3 GW under cloudless skies and 664 W/m² direct irradiance, accounting for roughly 71% of total output. Combined with 11.9 GW of wind and 4.1 GW of biomass, the renewable share reaches 94.5%. With consumption at 51.7 GW and total generation at 71.3 GW, approximately 19.5 GW is available for net export, driving the day-ahead price to −176.4 EUR/MWh. Thermal plants remain online at minimal levels — brown coal at 1.9 GW, natural gas at 1.5 GW, and hard coal at 0.5 GW — likely reflecting must-run obligations and provision of inertia rather than economic dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
A flood of golden light pours from an unblemished sky, drowning the grid in more power than any wire can carry. The turbines spin lazily in the mild spring air while the old coal towers stand mute, their fire nearly forgotten.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 71%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
11.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
50.3 GW
Solar
71.3 GW
Total generation
+19.5 GW
Net export
-176.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.4°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 664.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
37
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#1 Clean Hour #2 Helle Brise
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Solar 50.3 GW dominates the scene as a vast plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across more than two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under brilliant midday sun. Wind onshore 9.5 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on gentle green hills in the middle distance, blades turning slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 2.4 GW is suggested by a handful of turbines visible on a hazy northern horizon above a sliver of sea. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of modest wood-clad combined heat and power plants with short stacks releasing thin white exhaust, tucked among trees at left-centre. Brown coal 1.9 GW occupies a small section at the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with faint wisps of steam, beside a lignite conveyor and excavator pit. Natural gas 1.5 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal visible exhaust. Hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small dam and spillway nestled in a wooded valley at the painting's left edge. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single dark smokestack barely visible behind the cooling towers. The sky is completely cloudless, a luminous cerulean blue grading to pale gold near the horizon, with the sun high and slightly south — consistent with 1 PM in late April central Germany. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green deciduous foliage, rapeseed fields in vivid yellow, wildflowers in meadows between panel arrays. The atmosphere feels calm and open, reflecting deeply negative electricity prices — expansive, serene, almost weightless air. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and luminous glazing technique — but with meticulous modern engineering accuracy for every technology depicted. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 25 April 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-25T11:20 UTC · Download image