Grid Poet — 2 July 2026, 13:00
Solar at 42.8 GW and wind at 21.7 GW drive 15.5 GW net exports and a negative clearing price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
Solar dominates generation at 42.8 GW, contributing over half of the 75.8 GW total, supported by 21.7 GW of combined onshore and offshore wind. Renewable share reaches 92.4%, with thermal baseload limited to 5.7 GW across brown coal, gas, and hard coal. The system is producing 15.5 GW beyond domestic consumption of 60.2 GW, resulting in net exports of approximately 15.5 GW, which is consistent with the negative day-ahead price of −2.0 EUR/MWh as surplus power is pushed into neighboring markets. Residual thermal generation from lignite and hard coal likely reflects must-run obligations and contractual inflexibility rather than any system need for dispatchable capacity.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun pours gold across a land that drinks more light than it can hold, spilling radiance over borders like a river in summer flood. The coal plants idle in the glare, their cooling towers exhaling thin breath, ghosts of a former age standing quiet beneath the sovereign sky.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 25%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 56%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
21.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
42.8 GW
Solar
75.8 GW
Total generation
+15.5 GW
Net export
-2.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.9°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
52.0% / 562.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
54
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 42.8 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering more than half the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under strong midday summer sun filtered through partial cloud cover. Wind onshore 19.3 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles, rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind, arrayed along ridgelines and across green wheat fields. Wind offshore 2.4 GW appears as a small cluster of turbines visible on a distant hazy horizon. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip power plant with a tall stack and a pile of timber beside it, set among trees at the edge of a village. Brown coal 3.0 GW sits in the far left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin, wispy steam plumes, deliberately small and receding. Hydro 2.0 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir with turbine house built into a gentle river in the mid-ground. Natural gas 1.6 GW is a compact single-stack CCGT plant, barely running, minimal exhaust. Hard coal 1.1 GW is a single industrial stack with almost no visible output, partially hidden behind trees. The sky is bright summer daylight at 13:00, half covered by scattered cumulus clouds with strong direct sunlight breaking through gaps, casting sharp shadows across the landscape. Temperature 25.9°C: lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers in meadows, warm golden-green palette. The negative price creates a calm, expansive, open atmosphere — wide sky, serene horizon, no tension. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower, recalling Caspar David Friedrich's grandeur merged with industrial realism. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 2 July 2026, 13:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-02T11:20 UTC · Download image