Grid Poet — 2 July 2026, 11:00
Solar at 44 GW and wind at 17 GW drive 12 GW net exports and a near-zero price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates at 44.1 GW, contributing 59% of total generation during a largely clear midday hour with 507 W/m² direct irradiation. Combined with 17.0 GW of wind, renewables reach 90.3% of the 74.4 GW generation mix. Generation exceeds consumption by 12.0 GW, resulting in net exports of 12.0 GW and pushing the day-ahead price to -0.1 EUR/MWh — effectively zero, reflecting ample supply across the market area. Brown coal remains at 4.0 GW baseload while gas-fired generation has throttled back to 2.0 GW, consistent with their merit-order positions in a near-zero-price environment.
Grid poem Claude AI
A golden tide of photons floods the land, drowning the price of power beneath the sun's relentless hand. The turbines spin their quiet surplus seaward, where borders drink what Germany cannot command.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 59%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
17.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
44.1 GW
Solar
74.4 GW
Total generation
+12.0 GW
Net export
-0.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.2°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
31.0% / 507.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
70
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 44.1 GW dominates the scene as a vast central plain blanketed with thousands of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels glinting under bright midday sun, occupying roughly 60% of the canvas. Wind onshore 15.0 GW fills the right background as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers spread across rolling green summer hills, blades turning gently in a light breeze. Wind offshore 2.0 GW appears as a small cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a sliver of grey-blue sea. Brown coal 4.0 GW occupies the left middle ground as two large hyperbolic cooling towers emitting lazy white steam plumes beside a conveyor-fed lignite bunker. Biomass 3.9 GW sits just left of centre as a cluster of wood-chip storage domes and a modest industrial stack with faint grey exhaust. Hydro 2.1 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway cascading into a green valley stream in the far left background. Natural gas 2.0 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal vapour, tucked behind the cooling towers. Hard coal 1.3 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a rectangular boiler house and short chimney, barely visible at the far left edge. The sky is bright summer daylight — roughly 70% blue sky with scattered cumulus clouds at 31% cover — sun high and intense, casting sharp shadows across the panels. Vegetation is lush midsummer green, wildflowers dotting meadow edges, temperature around 22°C lending a warm haze. The atmosphere is calm, open, and expansive, reflecting a near-zero electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 2 July 2026, 11:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-02T09:20 UTC · Download image