Grid Poet — 2 July 2026, 15:00
Solar at 34.7 GW and wind at 26.7 GW drive 14.5 GW of net exports and a negative clearing price.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 15:00 on a summer afternoon, German renewables deliver 66.9 GW—92.8% of total generation—driven primarily by 34.7 GW of solar and 26.7 GW of combined wind. Despite 100% reported cloud cover, direct radiation of 316 W/m² indicates thin or broken cloud layers permitting substantial solar yield. Consumption stands at 57.7 GW, producing a net export position of 14.5 GW, which is pushing the day-ahead price to −2.0 EUR/MWh. Thermal generation remains at minimal levels: brown coal at 2.5 GW, natural gas at 1.6 GW, and hard coal at 1.1 GW likely reflect must-run obligations and system inertia requirements rather than economic dispatch.
Grid poem Claude AI
The sun presses through a milky veil, flooding the grid with more light than the nation can drink. Turbines and panels conspire in silver excess, while the old coal furnaces breathe low, waiting for a darker hour.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 48%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 3%
93%
Renewable share
26.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.7 GW
Solar
72.2 GW
Total generation
+14.5 GW
Net export
-2.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.5°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 316.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
51
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 34.7 GW dominates the centre-right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling summer farmland, their blue-black surfaces catching diffused but bright light; wind onshore 24.3 GW fills the left half and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning steadily in moderate breeze across green wheat fields; wind offshore 2.4 GW appears as a small cluster of turbines on the far horizon above a faint coastal line; biomass 3.5 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip CHP plant with a modest stack and thin white exhaust; brown coal 2.5 GW occupies a small area at far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising gently; hydro 2.0 GW appears as a concrete dam and spillway nestled in a forested valley at far right; natural gas 1.6 GW is a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal flue gas, tucked behind the solar field; hard coal 1.1 GW is a single smaller stack and boiler house barely visible beside the lignite towers. The sky is fully overcast with a high, thin, luminous white-grey cloud layer that nonetheless allows bright diffused daylight—no direct sun disk visible but the landscape is well-lit with soft, even illumination and no harsh shadows, consistent with 15:00 midsummer. Temperature 26.5 °C: lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers in meadow margins, heat shimmer rising from the PV arrays. Atmosphere is calm and expansive, suggesting low energy prices—open sky feeling despite clouds, no oppressive weight. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated greens and silvery greys, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into hazy distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower shell, and smokestack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 2 July 2026, 15:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-02T13:20 UTC · Download image