Grid Poet — 2 July 2026, 10:00
Solar at 41 GW and wind at 18 GW drive 90% renewable generation, pushing 9.4 GW of net exports.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 41.2 GW, contributing 57% of total generation on a partly cloudy summer morning with strong direct irradiance of 413 W/m². Combined wind generation of 17.7 GW provides a substantial secondary contribution, bringing the renewable share to 90.0%. Domestic generation exceeds consumption by 9.4 GW, resulting in net exports of that magnitude to neighboring markets, which depresses the day-ahead price to 5.5 EUR/MWh. Thermal baseload from brown coal (4.0 GW), gas (2.0 GW), and hard coal (1.3 GW) remains online at reduced dispatch levels, likely reflecting must-run constraints and ancillary service commitments rather than economic merit at this price level.
Grid poem Claude AI
A golden tide of photons floods the plain, drowning the old furnaces in light so cheap it flows like water past the borders. The turbines turn their slow applause, and coal stands quiet in the wings, still smoldering but uncalled.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 57%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
17.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.2 GW
Solar
72.1 GW
Total generation
+9.4 GW
Net export
5.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.1°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
33.0% / 413.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
72
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 41.2 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying well over half the canvas, their aluminium frames glinting under bright mid-morning summer sunlight filtering through scattered cumulus clouds covering roughly a third of a luminous blue sky. Wind onshore 13.0 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice-free tubular towers marching across green hillsides in the middle distance, blades turning gently in moderate breeze. Wind offshore 4.7 GW is visible as a cluster of larger turbines on the far horizon where land meets a suggestion of the North Sea coast, half-veiled in atmospheric haze. Brown coal 4.0 GW sits in the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting modest white steam plumes beside a lignite conveyor and open-pit mine edge. Biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a cylindrical digester tank, a small stack, and stacked timber nearby, nestled among trees at mid-ground. Hydro 2.1 GW is rendered as a concrete run-of-river weir with water cascading through turbine outlets along a tree-lined river cutting through the foreground meadow. Natural gas 2.0 GW is depicted as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller heat recovery unit, positioned beside the river. Hard coal 1.3 GW is the smallest industrial element, a single unit with a rectangular boiler house and a modest chimney with thin grey exhaust, nearly hidden behind summer-green linden and oak trees. The vegetation is lush midsummer — tall grass, wildflowers, full canopy deciduous trees — temperature around 20°C. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the very low electricity price: expansive sky, gentle light, no oppressive tones. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich, layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant elements — yet every technological detail rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine blade profiles, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic curvature, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 2 July 2026, 10:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-02T08:20 UTC · Download image