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Grid Poet — 3 May 2026, 14:00
Solar at 36.2 GW under overcast skies drives 91.7% renewables and negative prices with 7.7 GW net exports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 36.2 GW despite full cloud cover, benefiting from diffuse irradiance and long May daylight hours; combined with 9.1 GW of wind and 3.9 GW of biomass, renewables reach 91.7% of total generation. The system is producing 7.7 GW more than domestic consumption of 47.1 GW, resulting in net exports of approximately that magnitude to neighbouring markets. The negative day-ahead price of -10.9 EUR/MWh reflects this oversupply and limited demand flexibility, incentivising flexible consumers and storage to absorb excess energy. Thermal generation remains modest — 2.3 GW of lignite, 1.6 GW of gas, and 0.7 GW of hard coal — likely running at must-run minimums for system stability and contractual reasons.
Grid poem Claude AI
A silver flood pours from a veiled sky, panels drinking the ghost-light of a hidden sun while turbines hum their restless hymn across the plain. The grid groans with abundance, and the price falls below zero — a strange feast where the harvest outweighs every open mouth.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 66%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
9.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.2 GW
Solar
54.8 GW
Total generation
+7.7 GW
Net export
-10.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.8°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 93.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
57
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 36.2 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green May farmland, occupying two-thirds of the composition; wind onshore 8.8 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers scattered across ridgelines in the middle distance, blades turning briskly in moderate wind; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a cluster of small industrial plants with wood-chip silos and slender chimneys emitting thin white exhaust at the right edge; brown coal 2.3 GW shows as two massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing heavy steam plumes in the far left background; natural gas 1.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer beside the cooling towers; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small weir and powerhouse along a river cutting through the foreground meadow; hard coal 0.7 GW is a single older smokestack barely visible behind the lignite plant. The sky is entirely overcast with a uniform, bright white-grey cloud layer — full daytime at 14:00 with strong diffuse light, no direct sun, no shadows, yet the landscape is well-lit and luminous. Temperature is a warm 20.8 °C: lush green deciduous trees in full spring leaf, wildflowers in the meadow, fresh verdant grass. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and expansive — reflecting the negative electricity price — with a sense of serene overabundance. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 3 May 2026, 14:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-03T12:20 UTC · Download image