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Grid Poet — 28 April 2026, 13:00
Solar at 48.9 GW drives 91% renewable share and 10.7 GW net export, pushing prices to –29 EUR/MWh.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At midday on 28 April 2026, solar dominates at 48.9 GW despite full cloud cover, benefiting from high diffuse and direct irradiance (472 W/m²) typical of thin, bright overcast. Wind contributes a combined 11.0 GW onshore and offshore, while thermal generation remains modest with brown coal at 3.2 GW, natural gas at 2.0 GW, and hard coal at 1.2 GW — likely constrained to contractual minimums or providing inertia services. Total generation of 71.6 GW against 60.9 GW consumption yields a net export of 10.7 GW, consistent with the negative day-ahead price of –29.0 EUR/MWh, which signals ample cross-border offtake demand but ongoing curtailment pressure. The 91% renewable share reflects a structurally typical spring midday pattern where solar output peaks well above domestic load.
Grid poem Claude AI
A torrent of light pours through the silver veil, flooding the land with more power than it can hold. The market bows below zero, humbled by the sun's indifferent abundance.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 68%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
91%
Renewable share
11.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.9 GW
Solar
71.6 GW
Total generation
+10.8 GW
Net export
-29.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.4°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 472.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
63
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 48.9 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the canvas from centre to right, their blue-grey surfaces gleaming under bright but diffuse daylight filtering through a uniform white overcast sky. Wind onshore 10.4 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice-detail towers arrayed along ridgelines in the mid-distance, blades turning steadily in moderate wind. Wind offshore 0.6 GW is suggested by a small cluster of turbines barely visible on a hazy horizon line at far right. Brown coal 3.2 GW occupies the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin steam plumes beside a lignite power station with conveyor belts and coal bunkers. Natural gas 2.0 GW sits centre-left as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer. Hard coal 1.2 GW appears as a smaller classical power station with a square chimney and coal stockpile just behind the gas plant. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as several mid-sized biogas domes and small wood-chip CHP plants with low stacks scattered among the solar arrays. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a stone-built run-of-river weir and small powerhouse beside a stream in the foreground valley. The lighting is full midday daylight at 13:00, bright yet softened by complete cloud cover — a luminous white-grey sky with no visible sun disc, casting even shadowless light across the landscape. Spring vegetation is fresh green, with wildflowers and young crops between the panel rows. The atmosphere feels calm and open, reflecting the negative electricity price — no oppressive weight, just expansive serenity. The entire scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to pale blue-grey at the horizon — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower curve is depicted with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 28 April 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-04-28T11:20 UTC · Download image