Grid Poet — 3 July 2026, 10:00
Solar at 38.1 GW and wind at 29.0 GW drive 17.5 GW net exports and near-zero prices.
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Grid analysis Claude AI
At 10:00 on a summer Thursday, German renewables deliver 72.6 GW—91.6% of the generation mix—with solar contributing 38.1 GW and combined wind at 29.0 GW despite partly cloudy skies. Total generation of 79.2 GW exceeds domestic consumption of 61.7 GW, resulting in a net export position of 17.5 GW, which is pushing the day-ahead price to −0.1 EUR/MWh, effectively at zero. Thermal plants remain online at modest levels: brown coal at 2.5 GW, hard coal at 2.4 GW, and gas at 1.8 GW, likely reflecting must-run obligations, contractual commitments, or provision of system inertia and reserve capacity. The combination of strong solar output, robust onshore wind, and moderate summer demand produces textbook oversupply conditions requiring substantial cross-border export flows to maintain system balance.
Grid poem Claude AI
A river of light and wind spills past the levees of demand, flooding foreign shores with power priced at nothing. The old furnaces still breathe, stubborn hearts in an empire the sun has already claimed.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 33%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 48%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 3%
92%
Renewable share
29.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.1 GW
Solar
79.2 GW
Total generation
+17.5 GW
Net export
-0.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.9°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
81.0% / 301.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
59
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.1 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire right half and centre of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under diffused daylight filtered through high broken cloud cover at 81%. Wind onshore 26.5 GW fills the left third and extends into the mid-ground as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning at moderate speed in a 14 km/h breeze, scattered across rolling green summer hills. Wind offshore 2.5 GW appears as a thin line of smaller turbines on the far-left horizon above a distant grey sea. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a cluster of modest industrial buildings with short stacks and thin white exhaust plumes in the left mid-ground. Brown coal 2.5 GW appears as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy steam plumes rising into the overcast, positioned behind the biomass plant. Hard coal 2.4 GW is depicted as a single large power station with a tall red-and-white striped chimney and coal conveyors, to the left of the cooling towers. Natural gas 1.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a single polished exhaust stack and clean white exhaust, tucked between the coal station and biomass. Hydro 1.6 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and spillway in the far right background nestled between forested slopes. The sky is a milky summer overcast at mid-morning—bright but not harsh, with patches of blue breaking through layered alto-cumulus clouds, and 301 W/m² of direct radiation casting soft but discernible shadows. Vegetation is lush midsummer green—deciduous trees in full leaf, meadow grasses, wildflowers. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and luminous, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective—yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower rib, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.
Grid data: 3 July 2026, 10:00 (Berlin time) · Generated 2026-07-03T08:20 UTC · Download image