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Grid Poet — 26 April 2026, 13:00
Solar at 51.3 GW drives 93.5% renewables, pushing exports to 11.5 GW and prices to −414 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 51.3 GW despite full cloud cover, reflecting the strong diffuse and direct irradiance (475 W/m²) typical of a spring midday with thin high-level overcast. Total renewable generation reaches 57.8 GW—93.5% of the 61.8 GW total—yielding a net export of 11.5 GW as domestic consumption stands at only 50.3 GW. The day-ahead price of −413.8 EUR/MWh is deeply negative, signaling extreme oversupply and limited willingness from neighboring markets to absorb German exports at any positive price. Residual thermal generation remains online at modest levels—brown coal at 2.0 GW, gas at 1.6 GW, hard coal at 0.5 GW—likely reflecting must-run obligations and minimum stable generation constraints rather than economic dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
A flood of light no cloud can hold pours down upon the wires, and the price plummets past zero into a chasm where electrons beg to be taken. The old coal furnaces smolder stubbornly on, embers of a fading age refusing to bow before the silent tide of photons.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 83%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
1.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
51.3 GW
Solar
61.8 GW
Total generation
+11.5 GW
Net export
-413.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.9°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 475.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
45
gCO₂/kWh
Records
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Solar 51.3 GW dominates the entire panorama as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly 83% of the scene's visual area, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a bright but fully overcast white sky. Biomass 4.1 GW appears in the middle distance as a cluster of medium-scale wood-chip power plants with modest chimneys and small steam plumes. Brown coal 2.0 GW sits on the far left horizon as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of condensation rising lazily. Natural gas 1.6 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer, positioned just left of centre. Wind onshore 1.0 GW appears as two or three widely spaced three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the near-still air at 4.5 km/h. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse nestled along a stream in the mid-ground. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single small conventional stack on the far left, barely smoking. Wind offshore 0.3 GW is omitted from the visible landscape. The time is 1:00 PM in late April: full bright daylight, but the sky is a uniform luminous white-grey overcast with no blue patches and no visible sun disc, yet intense diffuse light bathes everything in soft, shadowless clarity. Spring vegetation is fresh bright green—young wheat in fields, new leaves on birch and linden trees along field edges. Temperature around 13°C: no haze, crisp air. The atmosphere is calm and almost eerily serene, reflecting the deeply negative electricity price—the sky feels open, weightless, almost too generous. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into pale distance—yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve and concrete texture. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 26 April 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-26T11:20 UTC · Download image