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Grid Poet — 4 May 2026, 11:00
Solar leads at 38 GW under overcast skies; coal and gas fill the gap as Germany net-imports 4.4 GW.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 38.0 GW despite 99% cloud cover, which is consistent with the high diffuse irradiance implied by the 287 W/m² direct radiation reading on a May midday. Wind contributes a modest 4.0 GW combined, reflecting the near-calm 7.1 km/h surface winds. Thermal baseload remains substantial: brown coal at 5.4 GW, hard coal at 3.7 GW, and gas at 4.2 GW together supply 13.3 GW, keeping the renewable share at 78.1%. Domestic generation falls 4.4 GW short of the 65.2 GW consumption, implying net imports of approximately 4.4 GW — a routine condition that, combined with the thermal dispatch, supports the moderately elevated day-ahead price of 93.1 EUR/MWh.
Grid poem Claude AI
Beneath a pale shroud of cloud, a continent of glass drinks the hidden sun's diffuse bounty, forty gigawatts conjured from grey. Yet the old furnaces still breathe their dark breath, filling the gap where light alone cannot reach.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 62%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 9%
78%
Renewable share
4.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.0 GW
Solar
60.8 GW
Total generation
-4.4 GW
Net import
93.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.2°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
99.0% / 287.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
152
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 38.0 GW dominates the scene: vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire right two-thirds of the canvas, angled south, their blue-black surfaces reflecting a flat milky-white overcast sky. Brown coal 5.4 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting lazily rightward, flanked by conveyor belts carrying dark lignite. Hard coal 3.7 GW appears just right of the lignite plant as a smaller coal-fired station with a tall concrete chimney and grey smoke. Natural gas 4.2 GW sits as a compact CCGT facility with twin exhaust stacks and a smaller cooling unit, positioned centre-left between the coal plants and the solar fields. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fed power station with a squat smokestack and wood pellet silos in the left-centre middle ground. Wind onshore 3.1 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a gentle hill in the far background, rotors barely turning in the still air. Wind offshore 0.9 GW is suggested by a thin line of distant turbines on the hazy horizon. Hydro 1.4 GW is depicted as a concrete run-of-river weir with a modest powerhouse beside a flowing stream in the lower-left foreground. It is 11:00 AM in May — full daylight but completely overcast: the sky is a uniform, heavy blanket of grey-white cloud with no blue, no sun disc visible, casting flat shadowless illumination across the landscape. The atmosphere feels oppressive and heavy, hinting at the elevated electricity price. The temperature is a mild 18°C: lush green deciduous trees in full spring leaf, wildflowers in meadows around the panels, fresh grass. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich layered colour, visible expressive brushwork, sfumato in the distant haze. Every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower flute is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 4 May 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-04T09:20 UTC · Download image