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Grid Poet — 4 May 2026, 15:00
Solar leads at 28.9 GW but 9.9 GW net imports are needed as low wind and steady coal fill the gap.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 28.9 GW despite 71% cloud cover, reflecting the strong diffuse and direct irradiance typical of a May early afternoon. Wind contributes a modest 4.2 GW combined, consistent with the low 7.7 km/h surface winds. Thermal baseload remains substantial: brown coal at 5.6 GW, hard coal at 3.6 GW, and gas at 3.0 GW together supply roughly a quarter of total output. Domestic generation of 50.4 GW falls short of 60.3 GW consumption, implying a net import of approximately 9.9 GW, which together with the residual load accounts for the moderately elevated day-ahead price of 94 EUR/MWh.
Grid poem Claude AI
A bright May sun pours golden current through silicon veins, yet the land still thirsts—coal towers exhale their ancient breath to close the gap between what light can give and what the nation demands.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 57%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 11%
76%
Renewable share
4.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.9 GW
Solar
50.4 GW
Total generation
-9.9 GW
Net import
94.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.5°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
71.0% / 393.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
173
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 28.9 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green May meadows, angled south and glinting under partly cloudy skies. Brown coal 5.6 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the hazy air. Hard coal 3.6 GW appears just to their right as a coal-fired plant with tall rectangular chimneys and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel. Natural gas 3.0 GW sits in the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with slender single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-ground biogas facility with rounded digesters and a small smokestack. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a modest concrete dam and spillway in a valley to the far left. Wind onshore 3.5 GW shows as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Wind offshore 0.7 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on the far horizon line. Full afternoon daylight at 15:00 in May: the sun is high but partially veiled by layered alto-cumulus clouds covering roughly 70% of the sky, creating a bright but slightly hazy, warm atmosphere at 22.5°C. Lush spring-green deciduous trees, wildflowers in the foreground, fresh May foliage. The atmosphere feels slightly heavy and oppressive—humid, warm, the clouds pressing down—reflecting the elevated electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into industrial haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 4 May 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-05-04T13:20 UTC · Download image